read between the lines

read between the lines
read between the lines
Fig. to infer something (from something else); to try to understand what is meant by something that is not written explicitly or openly. •

After listening to what she said, if you read between the lines, you can begin to see what she really means.

Don't believe everything you read literally. Learn to read between the lines.

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{v. phr.} To understand all of a writer's meaning by guessing at what he has left unsaid. * /Some kinds of poetry make you read between the lines./ * /A clever foreign correspondent can often avoid censorship by careful wording, leaving his audience to read between the lines./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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