protest too much

To deny something so often and/or so forcefully that people think one is not telling the truth. Taken from a line in Shakespeare's Hamlet: "Methinks the lady doth protest too much" (and often used in that structure). At even the slightest suggestion that there might be some impropriety in the company's accounts, the manager flies into a rage. He protests a bit too much, don't you think? Sheila mentions at every opportunity how she loves her husband and didn't marry him for his money—methinks she doth protest too much.

词组	protest too much
释义	protest too much protest too much To deny something so often and/or so forcefully that people think one is not telling the truth. Taken from a line in Shakespeare's Hamlet: "Methinks the lady doth protest too much" (and often used in that structure). At even the slightest suggestion that there might be some impropriety in the company's accounts, the manager flies into a rage. He protests a bit too much, don't you think? Sheila mentions at every opportunity how she loves her husband and didn't marry him for his money—methinks she doth protest too much. See also: much, protest Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: Denmark is rotten in Denmark something is rotten in (the state of) Denmark something is rotten in the state of Denmark shuffle off this mortal coil (something), thy name is (someone or something) conscience does make cowards of us all the lady doth protest too much, methinks the glass of fashion and the mold of form the gorge rises at it References in classic literature "I had so," cried Davy, but in the voice of one who doth protest too much. "No wonder you hadn't -- just sitting there like a -- like a mule." Anne of The Island
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