Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle were far from being close friends. When the French general got on the Prime Minister’s nerves, he wasn’t reluctant to express his irritation in the form of a scathing putdown. On one occasion he said of de Gaulle, “He looks like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath.”
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