For this summer, this is the Phoenix's sly nod in the direction of art.

In Britain the band's cover of the the dance smash "Not Over Yet" sounds like a sly nod to Paul Oakenfold, the star D.J. who helped produce it.

In other cases, the presence of the book is no more than a sly, casual nod to the audience.

At the Burchett Classic, competitors wear costumes, and the winning team dons pink blazers in a sly nod to the green jackets awarded to the champions of the Masters golf tournament.

Peter Parker cluelessly mentions that Reilly resembles Tobey Maguire, a sly nod to the Spider-Man trilogy.

Mould, though, goes out with a sly nod towards the future.

It is also a reference to the idiomatic Spanish expression "those who can, do" presumably as sort of a sly nod to the expression "those who cannot [do something], teach."

"Image is nothing; thirst is everything," says the slogan, in a sly nod to Sprite.

The name, an idiosyncratic rendering of the Italian word for wild boar, makes a sly nod to the neighborhood's daytime business.

The story goes that Frye jokingly named it "Burnt Norton," a sly nod to one of T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets."