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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
- A line from the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare . An officer of the palace guard says this after the ghost of the dead king appears, walking over the palace walls.
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鈥淪omething is rotten in the state of Denmark鈥 is used to describe corruption or a situation in which something is wrong.
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As Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, 鈥淪omething is rotten in the state of Denmark,鈥 Emanuel wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," Mr Emanuel tweeted on Friday.
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鈥淪omething is rotten in the state of Denmark!鈥
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Persia is no better off in Waterwell鈥檚 version of this Shakespeare tragedy, performed in English and Persian.
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Persia is no better off in Waterwell鈥檚 version of this Shakespeare tragedy, performed in English and Farsi.
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