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read someone's mind
Idioms and Phrases
Discern what someone is thinking or feeling, as in He often finished her sentences for her, almost as though he could read her mind . [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
Smooth: Iām wary of trying to read someoneās mind too much, but he certainly did seem to want the world to perceive him as someone who didnāt have a childhood, as a āPeter Pan.ā
Chang also emphasized that his approach cannot be used to read someoneās mindāonly to translate words the person wants to say into audible sounds.
It is picking up on subtle, fleeting cues in order to read someoneās mindāand there is almost no other impulse so basic and so automatic and at which, most of the time, we so effortlessly excel.
Stands, which often look like people, can only be seen by other stand users, and possess wildly different abilities, like turning things they touch into bombs, or being able to read someoneās mind by opening their face like a book.
It was like trying to read someoneās mind by dissecting their cerebral cortex.
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Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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