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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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” is used to describe corruption or a situation in which something is wrong.

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As Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” 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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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!”

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Persia is no better off in Waterwell’s 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’s version of this Shakespeare tragedy, performed in English and Farsi.

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