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
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
Popular and press reaction was considerably more acidulous toward perfidious Albion.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were shrugging Italian references to "perfidious Albion," and open questioning in France and Germany of Britain's staunchness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kidded him about the Boers, and the way the embattled farmers hung it on perfidious Albion.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
