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
Popular and press reaction was considerably more acidulous toward perfidious Albion.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, like potent and perfidious Albion, the Little Empire "muddles through."
From Time Magazine Archive
As to the offers to remember his interests in the perfidious peace that perfidious Albion was about to swear with equally perfidious France, his rejection was scornful indeed.
From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam
