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
ÉLie	-	French
Mieszko	MYESH-kaw	Polish
Avishag	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
RisteÁRd	-	Irish
Cory	KAWR-ee	English
Renata	re-NAH-tah (Italian, Spanish, German, Polish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Slovene, Late Roman