tea-leaf reader
Example Sentences
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Rogues, ornery females and the odd tea-leaf reader populate the pages of this month’s recommended books, which range across settings including a medieval village, a dystopian future and the landscape of two world wars.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022
I've been a sort of Woodward tea-leaf reader since the Watergate days, throughout his various tomes on presidents as the years have passed.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2022
You don’t have to be a tea-leaf reader to know what Meadows is getting at.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2015
The most hopeful tea-leaf reader would have hesitated to foretell anything better for him than a career as an impoverished army officer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Conscientious lawyers exercise their right to disqualify a juror with the precision of a surgeon, the intuition of an actor, the guesswork of a tea-leaf reader.
From Time Magazine Archive
