He stayed at another lord's castle for several months, oblivious to many not-so-subtle hints to leave, and was eventually forcibly removed by a butler.

Others toss a not-so-subtle hint by displaying a row of shoes or a guest basket offering slippers.

"Is that a not-so-subtle hint that your chief medical officer should retire?"

And we get the first not-so-subtle hint of what this novel is about.

A not-so-subtle hint to stop pestering him with questions so that he could get on with his work.

Mitchell, the tight end, repeatedly hailed as the team's most dangerous offensive threat, gave a not-so-subtle hint about his future by removing his nameplate.

By 1985, however, he was regretting and feeling the pressure of his claims, and started dropping not-so-subtle hints that he had never served in the military.

He sometimes turns transparent, and there are many not-so-subtle hints that he is a ghost.

A not-so-subtle hint that things could be better managed?

More than once, he told me that my father had been really lazy at times, dropping a not-so-subtle hint.