| 单词 | to read someone like an open book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto read someone like an open book 2. In comparative contexts, as to read someone like an open book: to discern someone's feelings, thoughts, etc., clearly. Cf. to read (also know) like a book at book n. Phrases 2m. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > achieve understanding [phrase] to see, etc. through (also into) a (brick, mud, stone) wall1598 to read someone like an open book1827 there are no flies on1848 to get under the skin of1862 to get or have (someone or something) taped1914 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. P.iiv The Memphite Zoroas, a cooning clerk: To whom the heauen lay open, as his book.] 1827 W. Howitt & M. Howitt Desolation of Eyam 266 How sweet 'twill be..to read thy guileless bosom, even as an open book. 1853 G. H. Boker Bankrupt iv. ii, in America's Lost Plays (1940) 105 I read your black heart like an open book. 1894 T. Martin Madonna Pia ii. iii. 53 Like an open book She lays her heart before me. 1944 F. Clune Red Heart 35 The desert is an open book to the man of the Vast Open Spaces, but to the schoolmaster it was a closed book. 1999 Re: Best Genre for First-time Writers? in misc.writing.screenplays (Usenet newsgroup) 21 July All of this which also comes in handy when flirting too. I can read people like an open book. < as lemmas |
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