| 单词 | perfidious albion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasperfidious Albion perfidious Albion n. rhetorical England or Britain considered as treacherous in international affairs; = perfide Albion n. [After French perfide Albion : see perfide Albion n.] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] Merry Englanda1400 rosec1460 south1641 perfidious Albion1798 perfide Albion1840 Mother of Parliaments1865 Little England1872 Blighty1900 1798 Morning Post & Gazetteer 26 Jan. A very considerable number of troops are now on their march.., in order to increase the armies destined to chastise perfidious Albion. 1838 Times 18 Oct. 4/5 Saying to France, ‘You wished to have a Pretender, and now you shall have one’. Perfidious Albion! 1841 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. June 711/2 Ferocious yells of hatred against perfidious Albion were uttered by the liberal French press. 1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 11 The French dislike of perfidious Albion may be reckoned to a great extent an intermittent matter. 1958 Observer 18 May 9/4 He [sc. General de Gaulle] felt it to be essential..that he should maintain a proud and haughty demeanour towards ‘perfidious Albion’. 2019 Times (Nexis) 11 Apr. 18 Union Jack awning, salesman dressed as a corporal muttering about Perfidious Albion as he gestures you into the shop. < as lemmas |
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