give an inkling
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Captain Adam Foote even had a long chat with Forsberg on the plane ride home and never once did the Swedish star give an inkling that his bothersome right foot might be acting up again.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2011
Later when correspondents suggested that other statesmen with whom he conferred might give an inkling, Hell-&-Maria shrilled: "They are not telling anything about what I have been doing, because nobody knows that except myself!"
From Time Magazine Archive
"Potatoes, with a 7% cut in acreage, a 24% smaller production, but a gross crop value about 2½times that of 1924, give an inkling of what ultimate curtailment on the farms might mean."
From Time Magazine Archive
A few extracts from letters to her cousin will give an inkling of its character.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.
And by mentioning one feature of his extravagance of that time I shall thereby give an inkling of all the rest.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
