perfidious Albion
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Oh, the huffing and the puffing, the outrage, the denunciation of perfidious Albion, the burning of their own vineyards by furious French winemakers!
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012
Monty: Now, by Britannia's word and bond I swear�Stalin: O, swear not by perfidious Albion Who monthly visiteth America.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a result, Macmillan has deepened France's ancient mistrust of perfidious Albion, while the Kennedy Administration's consultations with Whitehall have become ever more perfunctory on such life-or-death issues as Berlin and Cuba.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are resigned to "perfidious Albion" in the traditional role of Justice, upholding Europe's balance of power�with the British Lion couchant on the fulcrum.
From Time Magazine Archive
In La Vend�e and in the west, the prelates are to stigmatize "the odious machinations of perfidious Albion," and explain to the faithful the persecutions to which the English subject the Irish Catholics.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Durand, John
