seeing through
Meaning
"Seeing through" means detecting the true nature of someone or something, often spotting lies. It can also mean continuing with a task or plan until it is finished, despite trouble.
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Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
Rashmika could tell when anyone around her was lying. But seeing through her own deceptions was another matter entirely.
I'm tired of all the people I'm seeing through.
It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.