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
"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
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
The Marquis sat—never for one second did his expression give an inkling of what his brain was thinking about.
From An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by Orpen, William, Sir
I can’t give an inkling of what I saw in that brute’s eyes; it wasn’t light, it wasn’t colour; it was something that moved, away back, when the eyes themselves weren’t moving.
From Lost Face by London, Jack
