read about

read about (someone or something)

To glean information about someone or something by reading something. I'm reading about Abraham Lincoln, at the moment. I remember reading about a that in a magazine a few years ago.
See also: read
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

read about someone or something

to read information concerning someone or something. Did you read about John in the newspaper? I read about bonds, and learned a lot about finance.
See also: read
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • read about (someone or something)
  • read up
  • read up on (someone or something)
  • read of
  • read of (someone or something)
  • have (one's) nose in a book
  • have (one's) nose in a magazine
  • have nose in a book
  • have your nose in a book, magazine, etc.
  • nose in a book, have one's
References in periodicals archive
When I asked the man who couldn't read what he would like to do, he answered: 'I want to be able to get my driver's licence and to read about football.' I promised he would get his licence and he would read about football !
Help the eagles fly! Upgrading the skills of the American work force is the challenge of American management in the 1990s
A basic level of familiarity about this historical period is presumed whenever college students read about current political, international, or social events.
Literature facilitates content-based instruction
"I like to read about farming subjects because I grew up on a farm but never had a chance to farm myself," he says.
And the reading is easy ... in summertime, a good book is king of leisure pursuits. (Summer Escapes)(Cover Story)
"It bothers me when I read about people hurting each other, because I saw so much of that in my medical practice," he explains.
Talk amongst yourselves: how book groups are brewing up community. (Cover Story)
She'd read about book clubs and had even tuned into a now-defunct book club show that appeared on BET.
Sisters reunite through their love of books. (books N clubs)
At the same time, it should come as no surprise to anyone as smart as Winfrey that her largely female television audience would respond very well to the suggestion of a book club, and not just because women read about 70 percent of the fiction published every year in America.
Oprah throws the book at us
Dr Joseph Aluoch.DR JOSEPH ALUOCH, Chest SpecialistWhat do you read?Naturally, I read medicine related material, I read about the latest advances, any news in medicine.
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But nearly a third (29.1%) said they read every day, one in four (26.1%) said they read a few times a week and one in 10 (10.2%) said they read about once a week.
One in six youngsters 'rarely read out of class'
* Read about the Johns Hopkins University students and their basketball invention.
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Some of the professoriate embrace the bizarre idea of bibliotherapy, believing that children will feel better about themselves if they read about a child with similar problems (for instance, the child of an alcoholic parent should read about the child of an alcoholic parent).
The scream! Does children's literature have to be scary?
Someday, Ethan may pick up a magazine and read about how his brain compares with that of a precocious reader living halfway around the world.
Read all about it: kids take different neural paths to reach print mastery
But having already read about Emmett Till, they rather quickly understand that these Jim Crows were no joke.
Audre Lorde: contextualizing strategies
You could see a picture of a McIntosh, read about its slightly acid tartness, its hard crispness when fresh, the glossy smoothness of its skin, the little "crack" it gives when you first bite into it.
Don't read all about it! Spiritual reading and education is big business these days. But could reading that one more book about the faith perhaps keep us from actually living it?
While BIBR is devoted to books about African American culture and literature, we decided it would be useful to explore what's available for our children to read about other cultures.
Beyond the village: how black children widen their sense of the world through reading other voices from the global spectrum
"They thought it was persuasive in hearing someone speak, rather than just read about it.
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