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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

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

There were shrugging Italian references to "perfidious Albion," and open questioning in France and Germany of Britain's staunchness.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, like potent and perfidious Albion, the Little Empire "muddles through."

From Time Magazine Archive

At last," they say, "we have got this perfidious Albion in our power.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various




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