drop a hint （或drop hints）

drop a hint （或drop hints） let fall a hint or hints, as if casually or unconsciously （装作漫不经心地）给暗示： he was dropping hints that in future he would be taking a back seat in politics. 他暗示他将来会在政治上退居二线。

• numerologist
• Ehrenfest,Paul
• light as thistle down
• butcher linen
• flymen
• microinject
• play off a draw (或tie)
• main memory
• inswings
• straight-time
• want someone as much as one wants a hole in the head
• pourer
• HCSS
• persicaria
• gagers
• root ... out
• soul-body
• aneroids
• underdeveloped country / region etc
• decapacitates
• perverted image
• wading pool
• promotability
• wolfberry
• lodger
• composite grain
• go to the mat
• Ellesmere Island
• gazillionaire
• bird course
• against one's will
• nucleus
• man-rating
• badly off
• the best medicine
• sensory cell
• East African Community
• magnetic mine
• realisation
• scrape one's chin
• hecklers
• plusher
• be hung on
• personal organizers
• obvert
• core sample
• all goes down gutter-lane
• solenodon
• for the nonce
• inurbanities
• incestuousness
• thermosensitivities
• kerbstone
• scissors holds
• zoomorphic
• theorist
• sickos
• wave crest
• swaths
• batter into
• apostlebird
• warehouse receipts
• belongest
• soft missile base
• baroclinicity
• Peraea
• betterment tax
• petalisms
• rip currents
• forty-eightmos
• depoliticised
• crystalline frost
• candelabrums
• diactor
• demyelinating
• ruckuss
• skullguard
• tropocollagen
• termination factor
• crew-served
• Atlantic-type continental margin
• make a beeline for
• expropriate for
• labour after
• to the best of one's belief
• holdings
• biopoeic
• reships
• idiochromatic
• misthoughts
• dodge ball
• overtrades
• peritonitis
• sulfurflow er
• affixtures
• lending libraries
• strayers
• happen upon
• the simple life
• bugger sth↔up