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drop a hint

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drop a hint
Fig. to give a tiny or careful hint about something. Mary dropped a hint that she wanted a new ring for her birthday.
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drop a hint
to suggest something indirectly to someone I was hoping to see her again, so I dropped a hint, saying I wasn't doing anything this weekend.
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A Company like the Bekwando Company is very much like a woman's reputation, drop a hint or two, start just a bit of talk, and I tell you the flames'11 soon do the work.
The most careful sailor in the world might just drop a hint to that sort of man.
At the same time you might just drop a hint to your wife, and to that remarkably clever young niece of hers, Miss Penelope Morse.
 
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