dead giveaway
Example Sentences
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The color of the notes is usually a dead giveaway.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
When happiness is a dead giveaway that someone either doesn’t know, or doesn’t care, how very bad things are?
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2023
The cameras and phony police cars — and signs saying “Free the Joker” — should have been a dead giveaway, she said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2023
If the name of the film wasn't a dead giveaway, "Women Talking" is nothing without its powerful screenplay, which reads like an Ancient Greek dialogue on the nature of religion and submission.
From Salon • Mar. 11, 2023
She offered him a honey cake, but he shook his head, which was a dead giveaway right there that he had something on his mind.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
