between the lines

Idioms and Phrases

see read between the lines .

Example Sentences

“We have to sift through different layers of information and try to read between the lines to actually find out about the exact nature of the collections and where they are from.”

From BBC

The thing that is really interesting to me now reading the news or listening to a government official speak, is reading in between the lines.

From Los Angeles Times

This year, Banned Books Week will run from September 22-28 with the theme "Freed Between the Lines."

From Salon

This sense of alienation was a defining feature of the early 2000s, as people struggled to make sense of a rapidly changing world, and the album captured that cognitive dissonance with raw honesty in songs like “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”: “Read between the lines / What’s f**ked up and everything’s alright / Check my vital signs.”

From Salon

In the absence of any official Israeli comment, a certain amount of reading between the lines is needed.

From BBC

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