put two and two together
informalto guess the truth about a situation from what you have seen or heard:
"How did you know they were having an affair?" "I'd seen them out together a couple of times, so I just put two and two together."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Concluding and deducing
- analysis
- deduce
- deduction
- diagnosis
- exclude
- extrapolate
- gather
- in the last/final analysis idiom
- induction
- inductive
- infer
- inference
- must
- perceive
- put
- put sth down to sth
- reason
- syllogism
- two
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