"protest too much" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortened from the lady doth protest too much.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "protests too much",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "protesting too much",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "protested too much",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "protested too much",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To insist so passionately about something that people suspect the opposite of what one is saying."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To insist so passionately about something that people suspect the opposite of what one is saying."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "lang_code": "cmn",
          "roman": "cǐdì wú yín sān bǎi liǎng",
          "sense": "insist on something",
          "word": "此地無銀三百兩 /此地无银三百两"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "insist on something",
          "word": "vakuutella liikaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "sense": "insist on something",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "protestować przesadnie"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "protest too much"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortened from the lady doth protest too much.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "protests too much",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "protesting too much",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "protested too much",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "protested too much",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
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      "glosses": [
        "To insist so passionately about something that people suspect the opposite of what one is saying."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To insist so passionately about something that people suspect the opposite of what one is saying."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "cǐdì wú yín sān bǎi liǎng",
      "sense": "insist on something",
      "word": "此地無銀三百兩 /此地无银三百两"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "insist on something",
      "word": "vakuutella liikaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "insist on something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "protestować przesadnie"
    }
  ],
  "word": "protest too much"
}