- A nation of shopkeepers
- An Englishman's home is his castle
- Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
- Chinese whispers
- Double Dutch
- Ethnic cleansing
- Excuse my French
- Extraordinary rendition
- Fie, foh, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman
- Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
- Giving me gyp
- Good Samaritan
- Indian giver
- Indian summer
- Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
- Mexican wave
- Mother country
- My old china
- My old Dutch
- Not for all the tea in China
- Play the race card
- Pommy bashing
- Union jack
- The Yellow Peril
- Young turk