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protest too much

idiom

To insist so passionately about something that people suspect the opposite of what one is saying.


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Related idioms4entries
  1. 01

    much ado about nothing

    A lot of fuss or bother about something trivial.

  2. 02

    much of a muchness

    Of two or more things, having little difference of any significance between them.

  3. 03

    not much of anything

    Very little; not a lot.

  4. 04

    so much for

    An expression of dismissiveness, disappointment, disregard, or resignation; something said upon rejecting, giving up on, quitting, or disposing of something.

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