read between the lines

English

Verb

read between the lines (third-person singular simple present reads between the lines, present participle reading between the lines, simple past and past participle read between the lines)

1. (idiomatic) 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.

Translations

to infer a meaning that is not stated explicitly

• Arabic: قراءة ما بين السطور (ar) (rekhi magya hukhera) m
• Czech: číst mezi řádky (cs)
• Esperanto: legi inter la linioj (legi interlinie) (eo)
• Finnish: lukea rivien välistä
• French: lire entre les lignes (fr)
• German: zwischen den Zeilen lesen (de)
• Hungarian: olvas a sorok között (hu)
• Icelandic: lesa á milli línanna (is)
• Italian: leggere tra le righe (it)

• Japanese: 言外の意味を読み取る (ja) (gengai no imi wo yomitoru), 行間を読む (ja) (gyōkan wo yomu)
• Latvian: lasīt starp rindām (lv)
• Lithuanian: skaityti tarp eilučių (lt)
• Portuguese: ler nas entrelinhas (pt)
• Russian: читать между строк (ru) (čitát’ méždu strok)
• Scottish Gaelic: leugh eadar na sreathan
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чѝтати и̏змеђу ре̏до̄ва̄ (sh)

  Roman: čìtati ȉzmeđu rȅdōvā (sh)

• Swedish: läsa mellan raderna
• Turkish: satır aralarını okumak (tr) pl