read mind

read (one's) mind

To know what one is thinking. You read my mind—that's exactly where I want to go to dinner! I'm sorry, but I can't read your mind. You need to tell me these things.
See also: mind, read
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

read someone's mind

Fig. to guess what someone is thinking. You'll have to tell me what you want. I can't read your mind, you know. If I could read your mind, I'd know what you expect of me.
See also: mind, read
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

ˌread somebody’s ˈmind/ˈthoughts

(informal) understand what somebody is thinking, feeling, planning, etc: I can’t read your mind! If you don’t tell me what’s worrying you, I can’t help you.
See also: mind, read, thought
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
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  • have (one's) mind on other things
  • have your mind on other things
  • make up (one's) mind
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References in periodicals archive
When various bad guys mark Ollie for assassination her family tries to protect her but even they have to call on a bigger gun--Augustus Granger who can read minds and memories and also possess souls if he so desires.
PATRICK Jane is the Mentalist - no, not a crazy person, but instead a Derren Brown-type character who can almost read minds based on body language and voice.
Since they can read minds, move things, or change their density to stop a car in its tracks, which powers would he choose and why?
He can fly, make himself invisible, walk through walls, read minds and save the world as the nurse turned super-hero.
Cox can't actually read minds, his skill is to make it look like he can, but even that is too convincing for some people.
"I can't read minds, but you have to keep telling the players just to get out there and give it their best shot.
From changing the color of water to making coins disappear, appearing to read minds and more, Poof!
The strange metallic box contains out-of-this-world objects - Emma believes that one, the eponymous stuffed rabbit, can read minds; while Noah plunges the area into darkness with another, which puts a terrrorist expert (Michael Clarke Duncan) on their trail.
The idea of being able to read minds was one of his first hopes, perhaps including the possibility of discovering direct communication between minds.
I can read minds. If you think of a name I can tell you the exact name you're thinking.
Ford Thomson, consultant children's psychiatrist to the Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury group of hospitals, was instructed by a Government minister to find children with abnormally high IQs and the gift of ESP - extra sensory perception: the ability to read minds and move objects at will - and these children were duly found, first in Wolverhampton, then in Liverpool and other cities.
Would you rather have the power to be invisible or the power to read minds?
By monitoring the brains of people watching movies and then re-creating what the people saw, the new release has tiptoed closer to technology that can read minds by decoding mental activities, researchers report in the Oct.
London, Jan 14 (ANI): Experts have come up with a new application for the iPhone that has the ability to read minds.
Professor Eleanor Maguire, who led the researchers, said she wanted to advance science and help patients rather than read minds.