English

Alternative forms

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

Phrase

the lady doth protest too much

1. It is suspected that, because someone is insisting too much about something, the opposite of what he or she is saying must be true.
   • 1897, Samuel Butler, The Authoress of the Odyssey,

     In all Penelope's devotion to her husband there is an ever present sense that the lady doth protest too much.

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