英语词汇read between the lines的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	read between the lines
词源	read between the lines. Cryptographers commonly used a code whereby the secret message in a letter or other document could be discerned only by reading its alternate lines. This practice, and possibly the use of invisible ink to write messages between the lines of a letter, suggested to read between the lines, which by 1865 meant to discern the underlying fact or inten- tion in any document or action.
随便看	pussyfoot put a flea in one-s ear put all your eggs in one basket put a sock in it putative put in a good word for someone put in one-s two cents’ worth put it all in the first paragraph put lay one-s finger upon put nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear put one-s best foot forward put one-s foot in one-s mouth put one-s oar in another-s boat put on nothing but the radio put on the buskin put on the dog put on the gloves put on the spot putt put that in your pipe and smoke it put the cart before the horse put the john d to her put the kibosh on put the pedal to the metal put the toothpaste back in the tube

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