"hint" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

hint sustantivo

sustantivo + hint

Kolokacji: 5

hint of a veto • hint of a smile • household hint • hint of one's presence • hint of one's thoughts

hint + verbo

Kolokacji: 12

hint comes • Veto hint says • hint appears • hint touches • hint makes • ...

verbo + hint

Kolokacji: 20

drop hints • provide hints • find hints • give a hint • offer a hint • contain hints • take the hint • ...

adjetivo + hint

Kolokacji: 40

slight hint • faint hint • only hint • strong hint • subtle hint • mere hint • helpful hint • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 10

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 13

(1) slight, little, small, tiny, early

Kolokacji: 5

(2) faint, vague, dark

Kolokacji: 3

(3) only, valuable, heavy, disturbing, big

Kolokacji: 5

(4) strong, occasional

Kolokacji: 2

(5) subtle, not-so-subtle, ominous

Kolokacji: 3

1. subtle hint = subtelna aluzja subtle hint

2. not-so-subtle hint = not-so-subtle aluzja not-so-subtle hint

He stayed at another lord's castle for several months, oblivious to many not-so-subtle hints to leave, and was eventually forcibly removed by a butler.
Others toss a not-so-subtle hint by displaying a row of shoes or a guest basket offering slippers.
"Is that a not-so-subtle hint that your chief medical officer should retire?"
And we get the first not-so-subtle hint of what this novel is about.
A not-so-subtle hint to stop pestering him with questions so that he could get on with his work.
Mitchell, the tight end, repeatedly hailed as the team's most dangerous offensive threat, gave a not-so-subtle hint about his future by removing his nameplate.
By 1985, however, he was regretting and feeling the pressure of his claims, and started dropping not-so-subtle hints that he had never served in the military.
He sometimes turns transparent, and there are many not-so-subtle hints that he is a ghost.
A not-so-subtle hint that things could be better managed?
More than once, he told me that my father had been really lazy at times, dropping a not-so-subtle hint.

3. ominous hint = złowieszcza aluzja ominous hint

(6) mere, bare, tantalizing, intriguing

Kolokacji: 4

(7) helpful, useful, practical

Kolokacji: 3

(8) broad, clear, definite, unsubtle

Kolokacji: 4

(9) gentle, oblique, pointed

Kolokacji: 3

(10) far, brief

Kolokacji: 2

(11) sly, handy

Kolokacji: 2

(12) obvious, unmistakable

Kolokacji: 2

(13) cryptic, mysterious

Kolokacji: 2

preposición + hint

Kolokacji: 10

for hints • of hints • without a hint • with a hint • to hints • ...

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