read between the lines

/ɹˈiːd bɪtwˌiːn ðə lˈaɪnz/

[phrase]

to read between the lines

[PHRASE]

to get an understanding of what someone's true intention is or how they feel based on what they say or write

Examples

1. Reading between the lines, I think Clare needs money.

2. While Anderson did not say directly that changes needed to be made, it was easy to read between the lines.

3. If you really read between the lines of the music, the information was all there.

4. The line between the author as a public personality and the private person behind the pen is often blurred, and a subject that raises many questions and sometimes an unfair or dangerous degree of the public trying to read between the lines.