to read one's lips
01
to observe the shape and movements of someone's lips in order to interpret and understand what they are saying
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Collocation
例子
To understand the foreign language speaker, she had to read his lips carefully.
read my lips
01
used to ask a person to pay attention to one's words and believe them
Idiom
Informal例子
I'm telling you, I will not accept any more excuses — read my lips, we need this project completed by Friday.
