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Meanings of broad hint in English

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Usage of broad hint in English
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Hence this broad hint that was given me across the harpsichord.
Catriona
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At this broad hint John went in and put his suitcase on the bed.
The Wishing-Ring Man
3
We won't take any notice of the broad hint given in that last P.S.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
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This broad hint produced an adjournment to the smoking-room, the doctor leading the way.
The Fallen Leaves
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This broad hint as to her real position induced a different state of mind.
Trial of Mary Blandy
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Morrison gave a broad hint that this may well have been what happened on Wednesday.
The Guardian
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Parker glanced at her with a broad hint of belligerence in his keen gray eyes.
The Pride of Palomar
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Thus from bare suggestion we came to broad hint: the implied came to be expressed.
The Home and the World
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Shotted, but pointed wide, sir; merely a broad hint.
The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale
10
Wallace bowed a courteous, but dignified, assent to this broad hint to take his departure.
His Heart's Queen
11
But that inscription gives a pretty broad hint.
John Thorndyke's Cases / related by Christopher Jervis and edite...
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I've given Mrs. Kennedy a pretty broad hint that I want to take her in to dinner.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
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But I take it as a pretty broad hint to be quiet for the rest of my days.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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He tried a broad hint next.
The Fallen Leaves
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Nay, but a broad hint only.
King Alfred's Viking: A Story of the First English Fleet
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I took the broad hint, and shouldering my traps, hurried forward to the fo'lk'sle, which was below deck.
The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales
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