"If it would take us longer to walk somewhere than to cook a portion of oven chips, the vast majority of us can’t be arsed. At a time of growing obesity and air pollution, we’d rather burn fuel and conserve our fat reserves."
For an accurate picture of how companies are doing, investors must read between the lines
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company's preliminary proxy statement gives some insight into its $23 billion deal to be bought by Mars -- but you have to read between the lines.
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British vulgar slang
NOUN
VERB
Phrases
read between the lines
Look for or discover a meaning that is implied rather than explicitly stated:reading between the lines, I think Clare needs moneyPerceive or detect a hidden meaning, as in They say that everything's fine, but reading between the lines I suspect they have some marital problems.
This term comes from cryptography, where in one code reading every second line of a message gives a different meaning from that of the entire text. [Mid-1800s]
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