read between the lines
verbEtymology
Probably from glosses and commentaries which were written between the lines and provided the reader with additional information not explicitly stated in the text.
Definitions
To infer a meaning that is not stated explicitly.
- If you read between the lines a little, you will realize that he has deeper motives.
- The next day he made incantation, and distorted the miracle of the loaves and fishes till it became prophecy, and I, reading between the lines, saw that it was aimed at the wealth of meat stored in my caches.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for read between the lines. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA