give somebody a hint

The 49ers don't give hints as to what they're going to do next.

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

True, and yet she'd given no hint of the great changes back on Earth.

I thought you might give me a hint or two.

And I can give you a hint about his name.

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

Wouldn't even give me a hint about what his job had been.

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

"They give hints of how we make our way in the world."

If the poor man took any longer he'd have to start giving him hints.