Perfidious Albion
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of French perfide Albion. First coined by French poet and playwright Augustin Louis de Ximénès at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Proper noun
[edit]- (poetic or international relations, derogatory) The United Kingdom, seen as a country that is manipulative, deceptive, or treacherous on the international stage.
- Alternative form: perfidious Albion
- 2009 March 30, Dick Cheney, quotee, “Albion, I stab at thee”, in The Economist[1], →ISSN:
- 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.
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