The phrase "read the air" is not necessarily incorrect, but it is an informal expression and should not be used in formal writing.
It is typically used to describe the act of sensing a particular mood or feeling in a social environment or situation. For example, "Jon could read the air and knew the meeting hadn't gone well."
His second, How to Read the Air (Jonathan Cape, £16.99), is out now.
— for "kuuki yomenai" — a popular expression that literally means "can't read the air" or "clueless".
"How to Read the Air," published this week, addresses similar issues of self-image and estrangement from a different angle.
His latest novel, "How to Read the Air," is deeply thought out, deliberate in its craftsmanship and in many parts beautifully written.
Mr. Abe quickly became an object of ridicule in the popular media, an embodiment of an expression popular at the time: "K.Y.," for "kuuki yomenai," which literally means "can't read the air," or "clueless".
He chatted away, and when introduced to Dinaw Mengestu, the gifted young Ethiopian-American author of "How to Read the Air," he spent another half an hour outside talking about Africa, his eyes sparkling with excitement.
The writer was staying in New Delhi with his wife & her family, when he read the Air-India advertisement that you could fly Delhi-to-London via Moscow by jet--at no extra cost, on the Soviet airline, Aeroflot.
Pier Paolo Calzolari offers a ladder of frosty, refrigerated copper tubing topped by glowing neon script that translated from the Italian reads, "The air vibrates with the sound of insects".
Or perhaps it's the traditional Japanese culture of forcing people to behave like herds of sheep and act appropriately by carefully judging the vibe of every situation (what the Japanese literally call "reading the air") that makes the independent, freedom-loving cat the perfect target of obsession.
Shortly after being hired he was taken aside by the news producer and asked to read the on-air bulletin for the nightly broadcast.
The analysis of the MPX6115 pressure sensor shows that one needs to measure up to 4.4 V to read the designed maximum air pressure.
