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.

But the president gave little hint of what he would do in Iraq.

And so we're getting some hints at where we need to go look.

At least you have a hint of what she was up to.

How big a hint does a man need, he thought.

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

And I can give you a hint about his name.

Perhaps he had given the boy a hint too much with those words.

By day four, the news media was getting the hint.

The men take the hint and move to another table.

"Did your husband give you any hint about where they were going?"

They took the hint and went up to the house.

Still he could see only the hint of a figure in the room.

All hint of outside air had long since been left behind.

I can give you some hints of what we are.

I thought you might give me a hint or two.

I can figure some things out, given a few hints.

The hint might turn out to be nothing at all.

Just a hint of what they can do, she told herself.

She might find some hint of what was going on.

You see a few hints of what is to come.

They become friends again and hint at getting back together.

But I gave him a hint about his little brown book.

Her voice held no hint of what she was thinking.

With these few hints on their care, you may just be able to make them last a bit longer.

And without a hint of what I was doing at the time, no less!

Behind me the east began to hint at deep blue instead of black.

But does it even hint at how he would fight back?

Let me not even hint that this is the right thing now.

What the police expected them to do was not hinted at.

Nothing in my theory even hints at any such things.

She had never even hinted at such a thing before.

As already hinted at above, one can go even further.

While not in the same words, they hint to the building of social presence.

How many other times had he hinted the same thing?

Instead he hints at going to war on his own authority.

He has also hinted that the order came from above.

Nothing I'd seen in the data even hinted at that.

In fact, I had hinted that he should do so.

Even kind of hinted that maybe one day she'd like kids.

The two had not asked for money or hinted at it.

Nothing that could hint at the woman behind the cool control.

At this point, 22 members support the bill and others have hinted they might go along.

Only once did I hear any of them even hint at my existence.

It was what his father had always hinted at, wanted everyone to believe.

They more or less hinted that we'd all better not leave the house.

She wanted him to do the things he had only hinted at that night.

My father hinted as much, but he said it was just green love.

But they sometimes hint at an athlete's state of mind.

That was before the moving company hinted at the cost.

She was, as has already been hinted, a very religious woman indeed.