extrapolate (something) from (something)

extrapolate (something) from (something)

To deduce information from something Yeah, I extrapolated that they broke up from the scene I walked in on—Lauren sitting in the dark and crying with no sign of her so-called boyfriend anywhere.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

extrapolate something from something

to reason out the answer from the known facts. I cannot extrapolate what he meant from these notes. Can you extrapolate the annual total from the company's sales so far this year?
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • extrapolate
  • extrapolate from
  • cry for
  • cry for (someone or something)
  • for crying in a bucket
  • crying shame
  • crying shame, a
  • a crying shame
  • shame
  • crying drunk