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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

  1. A line from the play , 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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