Perfidious Albion
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The United Kingdom, seen as a country that is manipulative, deceptive, or treacherous on the international stage.
— 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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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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