take a hint
get a hint

The answer should have made him take a hint and go away.

Well, the boy could take a hint, you have to give him that.

I know how to take a hint from the universe.

But they could take a hint to send me up there.

"You'd think they could have taken a hint from the local natural beauty and done something original."

And if they're too stupid to take a hint, you want people who can end things quick.

With all his entertaining ways he's sometimes slow at taking a hint.

I killed his whole family, and he still won't take a hint.

"I hope you can all take a hint," he said.

So the department took a hint from Hollywood and decided to make videos.

Either that, or he was just too stupid and shy to take a hint.

The Federation hadn't always been good at taking a hint.

Assad was a man who refused to take a hint.

It seems you're a guy that can't take a hint.

These guys wouldn't take a hint, so we went out there to reason with them, like.

She could take a hint as well as the next woman.

And also, on account of language difficulties, fail to take a hint.

Take a hint from the restaurant's name, and zero in on the seafood.

After all, if he wasn't going to take a hint, she simply had no choice but to be blunt.

If the kid couldn't take a hint, what option did he have?

IF you want to clean your own chandelier, take a hint from an expert.

I can take a hint, so long as it's sufficiently obvious and prolonged.

Sensitive guy that he was, he could take a hint.

Bless him, he knew how to take a hint.

"I can take a hint," she said aloud, and pulled the book from the shelf.

"Did you ever get a hint about why the project never got off the ground?"

They have a story to tell, but we only get a hint of it.

Things I had to strain to even get a hint of.

I did find out that the old man was called Smoke, but never got a hint of the woman's name.

"You got a hint of something going down anywhere in national intelligence?"

I got a hint that his thoughts had turned to Maya.

Well, then we'll have to go over it all again slowly and see if you can get a hint."

The air was starting to get a hint of twilight chill.

In letters written home we get a hint of his diversions.

Suddenly, he got a hint of the enormous changes that must be taking place in Lillian's life.

You could still get a hint of pupil, but it was sinking fast.

And what better way, he asks, to get a hint of the creativity that seems to be demanded in business today?

"What these unusual cases do is draw your attention to something that we only get a hint of in real life.

I began fishing around among my male friends, trying to get a hint of what colors and styles they considered hot.

"On tape you can get a hint of why the Giants' defense is good - they have a great scheme," he said.

I never got a hint of it till yesterday.

Sometimes we just get a hint of something and we go on from there."

It's got a hint of a keel on it for maneuverability.

If the triad dragons get a hint of who he really is, everything will fall apart.

Only once did I, in my trances, get a hint of the period preceding the time spent on the island.

Did I get a hint that they were going to make a snob's guide to dinner parties?

We just get a hint of that now.

He should have gotten a hint of who she was from her choice of scent.

I'd begun to think I warn't going to get a hint of no kind to help me.