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词组 protest too much
释义
Idiom
protest too much
literary if someone protests too much, they tell you more often than is necessary what they feel about a situation so that you start to doubt they are sincere.
He constantly denies there is any autobiographical input in his novels, but does he 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? Shiela mentions at every opportunity how she loves her husband and didn't marry him for his money—methinks she doth protest too much.
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