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Perfidious albion

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The United Kingdom, seen as a country that is manipulative, deceptive, or treacherous on the international stage. derogatory

    "Vice-President Dick Cheney viewed the move by Britain—“perfidious Albion,” as he put it—as “a stab in the back,” according to a former senior intelligence official."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Perfidious Albion. alt-of

Etymology

Calque of French perfide Albion. First coined by French poet and playwright Augustin Louis de Ximénès at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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