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Between the lines

prep_phrase

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Prep_phrase
  1. 1
    By implication or way of inference; indirectly.

    "The lines give us the letters, but we have to look ‘between the lines’ for the spirit and the intention."

Etymology

Probably from glosses and commentaries which were written between the lines and provided the reader with additional information not explicitly stated in the text.

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