read someone's mind

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

read someone's mind (third-person singular simple present reads someone's mind, present participle reading someone's mind, simple past and past participle read someone's mind)

1. (idiomatic) To guess or deduce what someone is thinking.
   • 1982, Eric Woolfson, Alan Parsons, Eye in the Sky, performed by The Alan Parsons Project:

     I am the eye in the sky looking at you / I can read your mind

Derived terms

• read minds

Translations

to guess what someone is thinking

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讀懂某人的心思 / 读懂某人的心思 (dúdǒng mǒurén de xīnsī)

• Finnish: lukea jonkun ajatukset
• French: lire dans les pensées
• German: jemandes Gedanken lesen
• Portuguese: ler a mente de alguém
• Russian: чита́ть мы́сли (čitátʹ mýsli)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: читати мисли impf

  Latin: čitati misli

• Spanish: leer la mente
• Thai: อ่านใจ
• Turkish: aklını okumak

See also

• have one's head read