read between lines

"You have to learn from someone making the thing right who can give you that crucial part of the technique that you may not read between lines in a recipe."

It didn't take a crystal ball or a PhD to read between lines: Alex Smith was fighting for his leg, at the very least.

Says White: "We're trying to turn out the kind of citizen who can read between lines and listen between words."

How is it so––you read between lines?

Yet minds so keen as theirs long before them had read between lines on the printed page, under the outward mask of human countenances.