It is a possible scenario, but I am reading other tea leaves.

I suppose you read tea leaves as well as fortunes?

The companies who stumble are the ones who spend too much time reading tea leaves to figure out the future direction of Microsoft.

Instead of reading tea leaves or looking for signs in the stars, we can look for evidence of real economic recovery.

But even for diplomats, trying to figure out what Syria's leaders are really up to is a bit like reading tea leaves.

Have you been reading tea leaves again, Dax?

Reading the signs is a bit like reading tea leaves - you can read into them, whatever you want.

For years, such investors - who are focused on fundamentals - have ridiculed technical analysis as little better than reading tea leaves.

"George is extremely good at reading tea leaves and heading off political problems before they become too big for him," one intelligence official said.

She was just trying to read tea leaves with all the mental aerobics.