nod

He nodded his head, and told them to keep resisting.

A murder hits him where he lives, and lengths of mysterious red thread appear in his path, a nod to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 novel “A Study in Scarlet.”

The team spent a long time working on George until eventually Andrea received a nod from the consultant.

In a nod to our differences, on Valentine’s Day I went on the morning elephant encounter and he went on the river rafting trip.

The movie’s nod to that bit of fan lore only took the meme to the next level.