read lips

read someone's lips

to manage to understand speech by watching and interpreting the movements of the speaker's lips. I couldn't hear her but I could read her lips.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Metushelach	-	Biblical Hebrew
Altansarnai	-	Mongolian
Kaori	kah-o-ṙee	Japanese
Leobwin	-	Ancient Germanic
Pejo	-	Croatian, Serbian
Payton	PAY-tən	English (Modern)