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In an oft-quoted remark, the former Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, during a speech in Washington, DC in 1969, observed to his American audience that 'living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant: no matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt'. Trudeau's memorable simile could, of course, be applied to any relationship between a large, powerful country and a close neighbour, much weaker in political, economic and demographic terms. It certainly might refer to the Anglo-Scottish connection.

T.M. Devine. In Bed with an Elephant: Almost Three Hundred Years of the Anglo-Scottish Union

да-да, и не только англо- и не только -скоттиш.