2006-10-06 11:02:02 · 17 answers · asked by FairyPrincess 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
It means their is an underlying meaning.
Say I owned a business. A guy comes in with his old boss as a reference. The boss says, "You would be very lucky if you could get this guy to work for you."
Sounds good, right? If I can afford to pay the guy, I would be lucky to have him as an employee.
But read the boss's statement again. I would be lucky if I can get the guy to get off his rear and do some work. See, this is reading between the lines. What is heard and what is intended may be different things.
2006-10-06 11:07:57 · answer #1 · answered by dachsymom 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Read Between The Lines Meaning
2016-10-04 22:26:23 · answer #2 · answered by arregui 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read In Between The Lines
2017-01-01 05:06:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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The proper expression is "to read between the lines". Inexperienced people are unable to do it. It takes Life Experience, and some intelligence to see more than just simply what the words say. Many novels, Theatre Plays (including Shakespeare), and even some TV stuff, relies on the viewer/reader being able to read 'subtexts' - stuff that is not written, but often very powerful. Things like Irony come in play here.
2016-04-07 01:29:45 · answer #4 · answered by Barbara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This originated in the Dark Ages (say 500 to 1000 AD) when the Church in Europe used Latin exclusively. Priests who weren't too fluent in Latin had copies of the Bible with a translation into their own language written in smaller letters in between the big lines of beautifully hand-lettered Latin text. So "reading between the lines" was finding the real meaning of something that was a bit obscure if read purely on its own. The modern meaning has drifted to what other answerers have described - working out what the writer is concealing behind a careful choice of words.
2006-10-06 11:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reading Between the lines means you make inferences about what is happening and not just take evrything as a litteral meaning
2006-10-06 11:04:46 · answer #6 · answered by cutie123 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it means that the answer is not in what was said. that sounds confusing but it is something like this......
If your boyfriend said this to you, "You're not going to the gym today??" What would you think he was trying to say?..........If you thought is he trying to say i am fat and need to go work our then you just read in between the lines.
2006-10-06 13:11:37 · answer #7 · answered by jazzlyn07 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meaning: Listen to what is implied, not what is explicitly stated.
Example: If your girlfriend told you that you are a good friend, you need to read between the lines. It's over.
Origin: Early in the days of sending secret messages people would write in substances that would only be revealed on plain paper with the use of a re-agent. For instance, lemon juice is normally transparent on paper, but when heated (say over a candle flame) it becomes discolored. Many people will probably remember the "Secret Agent" pens, which had a writing tip at one end and a revealer at the other.
Obviously a courier delivering a blank piece of paper was a bit of a give-away, so the author of the message would write a seemingly innocuous letter in ink and then write the secret message in the spaces in between. The recipient would then have to treat the letter and read between the lines of the letter to get to the real message.
Thanks to Matthew Bragg
2006-10-06 11:10:09 · answer #8 · answered by abynorml29 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
analyze what someone says or writes
"brother love likes Henry Ford's museum"-your bro is in detroit
2006-10-06 11:03:46 · answer #9 · answered by cars_o_holic 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means to read what is said and to try to understand what is not said in the same writing.
2006-10-06 11:10:16 · answer #10 · answered by Kenneth H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋