read between lines
Example Sentences
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"You have to learn from someone making the thing right who can give you that crucial part of the technique that you may not read between lines in a recipe."
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2022
Says White: "We're trying to turn out the kind of citizen who can read between lines and listen between words."
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet minds so keen as theirs long before them had read between lines on the printed page, under the outward mask of human countenances.
From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson
