the lady doth protest too much

短语

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别名

the lady doth protest too much, methinks methinks the lady doth protest too much methinks thou dost protest too much

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    It is suspected that, because someone is insisting too much about something, the opposite of what they're saying must be true.

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词源

An allusion to Shakespeare's Hamlet, where the line is spoken by Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. In the play, "protest" is used to mean "insist that what one is saying is true" (in this case, the Player Queen's protestations of love), not "insist that what another is saying is false."

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