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
Xia	-	Chinese
Kaapo	KAH:-po	Finnish
Ludo	-	Dutch
Ceridwen	ke-RID-wen	Welsh
Haifa	-	Arabic
SalomÉ	sə-loo-ME (Portuguese)	French, Spanish, Portuguese