Allemand.

“Une querelle dʹ Allemand,” a quarrel about nothing. We call pot valour “Dutch courage.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

All Souls Day
All the go
All there
All this for a Song!
All to break (Judges ix. 53)
All waters (I am for)
All-work
Alla or Allah (that is, al-ilah)
Alla Akbar
Allan-a-Dale
Allemand
Allen
Allestree
Alley (The)
Alliensis (Dies) (June 16th, B.C. 390)
Alligator
Alligator Pears (the fruit of Persea gratissima)
Alliteration
Allodials
Allopathy
Alls