to read mind
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- phrasal verb
- Informal
:
leer la mente
- What do you mean, they read your mind?
- read others' minds
They're basically saying we can read his mind, we know what he meant.
- They're basically saying we can read his mind, we know what he meant.
- So he distinguishes between read your mind algorithms and change your mind algorithms.
- Don't assume you can read the minds of the person that you're dealing with.
- And no, narcissists are actually not really good at reading your mind per SE.
- Your spouse can always read your mind no matter what.
- And what they want is for you to read their mind, literally anticipate what they want.
- No, they do not understand why they need you to read their mind.
- So often we expect people to just know us, just understand us, read our minds.
- Or would you rather be able to read people's minds?
- So if you had to choose to either walk outside naked or have people read your mind, what would you what would you pick?
- You're thinking that time travel is better than reading minds.
- So the other thing you need to know is that men cannot read your mind.
- And it was tweets that they Twitter was admitting in there that they can read his mind.
- You can also read the mind based on certain physical responses.
Examples
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In movies, characters often seem to have the ability to read minds, revealing hidden thoughts.
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You read my mind, partner.
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Do you expect for me to read your mind?
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Did you just read my mind?
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You just read my mind!
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I can read your mind, remember?
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I can read your mind.
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As if she could read his mind, she said, "Nothing you do will change things."
Fiction book (1993) -
And what they want is for you to read their mind, literally anticipate what they want.
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Who among us hasn't wished we could read someone else's mind?
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Morphology
The meaning is a metaphorical extension of 'read' (make sense of signs or behavior) applied to 'mind' (thoughts), so a learner who knows both words can plausibly infer 'to know what someone is thinking' but must shift from literal reading to mental inference. This mapping is common cross-linguistically and somewhat predictable, yet it relies on metaphorical transfer rather than strict compositionality.
Etymology
Read mind comes from the simple image of the mind as a book you can read. If you could see someone's 'thoughts' like written words, you would know what they think without them saying it, so the phrase means 'to know or understand what someone is thinking without them expressing it'.