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take a hint

  1. Also, take the hint. Accept an indirect or covert suggestion, as in Evelyn took the hint and quietly left the room. This idiom was first recorded in 1711.



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I folded my hands together on top of my desk and nodded toward my bedroom door, hoping Miss Smarty-Pants could take a hint.

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As Stone's comments indicate, the downside of this "no direct communication" policy was that Trump and his legal team were taking a gamble, hoping that Trump's followers could take a hint.

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If your mother still can’t take a hint, see if you can set her up to pay directly to your childcare provider instead.

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Anyway, life as we know it on the planet is a mess, and if you're hoping to get it cleaned up any time soon, it's obvious we have to take a hint from Bertrand Russell, who famously said in a 1959 interview that "if we are to live together and not to die together we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."

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Instead of taking revenge, this president should learn to take a hint.

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