The phrase "a small clue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a minor hint or piece of information that may help someone solve a problem or mystery.
Example: "The detective found a small clue that led him closer to solving the case."
Alternatives: "a tiny hint" or "a minor indication".
But outside in the car park, there is a small clue, for those who care to look: a shiny, new "FA Women's Championship" sign, proudly adorning the wall.
Unlike women, men were charged to enter (and indeed exit) the site, which might have given them a small clue as to what was going on.
For now, there seems to be at least a small clue in answer to the latter of those questions.
The Quaker Charity Shop on Belfast's Lisburn Road has wrapped its second-hand books in plain paper, with just a small clue scrawled on the package to tease readers on which book might be inside.
Leave a small clue with each piece of chocolate until the hunt culminates either in the bedroom or in a cozy area of your home where you have arranged for a romantic dinner for two.
I skimmed her letters, looking for anything relating to the landscape, vegetation, flood patterns, flora/fauna, etc., and reading her cramped script did make me feel like a detective, on the lookout for any small clue that could enlighten a piece of our mystery landscape.
Don't leave any small clues.
But when we took this footage to the police, it was too shaky to provide more than a few small clues.
The difficulty that the Rev. Michael Mendl, a Roman Catholic priest in a teaching order here, experienced in trying to get a census form offers just one small clue as to why returns of the census have fallen short of expectations in New Jersey and other states, despite an unprecedented promotion by census officials.
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. .
