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Rubbish on-line about cruel figure in Labour (6,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nemean lion

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'figure in labour' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'rubbish on-line about cruel' is the wordplay.
'rubbish' indicates an anagram (a poor quality or rubbish spelling of the letters).
'on line' becomes 'on-line' (synonyms).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cruel' becomes 'mean' (I've seen this in another clue).
'online' with letters rearranged gives 'nelion'.
'nelion' placed around 'mean' is 'NEMEAN LION'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for nemean lion that I've seen before include "A labour of Hercules" , "Animal Hercules overcame" .)

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