read between the lines

Bedeutung

to understand what someone means but does not say

Verstehen, was jemand meint, aber nicht ausspricht.

Beispiele

1. 1Her email sounded polite, but reading between the lines, I think she's quite upset.
2. 2If you read between the lines, the company is clearly planning to close the shop.
3. 3He never said he was unhappy at work, but I could read between the lines when he started updating his CV.
4. 4The review only described the food as interesting, so we read between the lines and ate somewhere else.
5. 5Why can't Anna just say what she means? I'm tired of having to read between the lines.

Grammatik

Nur read verändert sich: reads, reading; die Vergangenheitsform read wird /red/ ausgesprochen. lines bleibt im Plural.