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Thread #30914   Message #400195
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
17-Feb-01 - 12:00 PM
Thread Name: Help: The Foggy Dew: perfidious Albion?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Foggy Dew
Certainly, Napoleon used the term Albion Perfide; a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.  Due to long-standing rivalry, each nation considered the other to be treacherous.  I don't know if the expression pre-dates him, but it became a fairly standard jibe; rather out of fashion nowadays.

Malcolm