OXFORD 9000
📚 phrase • entry_id 52809

something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Meanings (ES + gloss)
algo está podrido en el estado de Dinamarca • algo huele a podrido en Dinamarca
Something is not right, seriously amiss, especially when leading to suspicion of motive.
If divided roughly, two-thirds of them work in desk jobs while one-third are involved in field work. When one gets that sort of proportion one begins to think, “Something is rotten…
If the authorities knew about the problems and chose not to prevent them, then clearly something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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