To discern the reality, or the hidden truth from something such as a fact or document

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  • There are a few cryptography (secret message writing) forms in which it’s significant for the cryptographers to go in details of every line of writing and read everything so that decoding of the original message can be accomplished. The phrase illustrates that people use to write and talk in a way that their real intentions and messages are hidden. Reading between the lines means that you can actually determine their real intentions and figure out the truth.
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I asked her to be truthful to me because I can certainly read between the lines.

Submitted on February 25, 2019

Additional definitions for 'Read Between the Lines':

read between the linesTo infer a meaning that is not stated explicitly.
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baca yang tersirat

lese mellom linjene

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