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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a broad hint" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that a suggestion or clue is clear and easily understood, but not explicitly stated.
Example: "She dropped a broad hint about wanting to go to the new restaurant for dinner."
Alternatives: "a strong suggestion" or "a clear indication".
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But he dropped a broad hint.
But a broad hint was dropped in the catalog under the heading "Exhibited".
Yesterday he gave a broad hint that, somehow, he would do just that.
Is he really trying to give the Europeans a broad hint?
Sumption told me, in a somewhat circumspect manner: "I had a broad hint that an application would not come amiss".
That's a broad hint that one sensible way to overcome our difficulties would be to revert to tax rates more or less as they were under President Clinton.
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V is for Vlad Tepes At one point in Dracula, Stoker drops a very broad hint that the Count is in fact none other than a real-life warrior and Wallachian national hero, Vlad Tepes (c1431-1476) – "Tepes" meaning "the Impaler" – thanks to his reported habit of making kebabs of his enemies.
Even so, Gordon Brown dropped a pretty broad hint in November that tax increases were on their way.
He dropped a pretty broad hint about his concerns earlier this month, when he said he had "not yet seen any major impetus to a pick up", adding that the Fed was "far more inclined... to be taking out insurance against economic weakness" and saw the need for a "wider firebreak" to contain deflationary forces.
It's a wake up call and broad hint to the fact that crunch time has begun.
Mr. Pasko has spent 22 months in jail, rejecting both an amnesty and broad hints of a pardon, in a case that has become an international cause for human rights activists and a embarrassment for the Kremlin.
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