Bush: ‘Read my lips.’ Compuser: ‘Read my blog!’ Idioms. Apparently, ‘read my lips’ was first said and became an idiom in the 1980s; it certainly was popularized by US President George HW Bush during the 1988 presidential campaign: ‘Read my lips: No new taxes.’ The idiom means, ‘Listen to me, what I’m telling you is true.’ Powerful language. Today, 2005 July 26, I a Filipino am inventing a new idiom: ‘Read my blog!’ To be sure, many others have earlier published the exact phrase ‘read my blog,’ but I am the first to propose it as an idiom of the times. And you know what, it is even more powerful than ‘read my lips’ because ‘read my blog!’ means ‘read my mind!’ Read my blog! The Compuser’s Dictionary