read\ between\ the\ lines

read\ between\ the\ lines
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.


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