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The lady doth protest too much, methinks Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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From Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
The quotation "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act III, scene II, where it is spoken by Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The phrase has come to mean that one can "insist so passionately about something not being true that people suspect the opposite of what one is saying." The phrase is often misquoted as "Methinks the lady doth protest too much." and is commonly used in the second person as "Methinks thou dost protest too much."
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