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vb. (context idiomatic English) concede to mounting evidence; wake up and smell the coffee.
Wikipedia
Take the Hint is an Australian television game show which aired 1962-1966 on the Nine Network. Although popular enough to run for four years, not much information about the series is available on the Internet. It appears to have been based on American series Password.
Produced in Sydney, it was a 30-minute series hosted by Frank Wilson.
At one point during the run of the series in Sydney, it was preceded on the schedule by It Could Be You and followed by Keynotes and this was also the case during the same period in Melbourne.
Usage examples of "take the hint".
He turned his gaze on Aisa, waiting for her to politely excuse herself, but she did not take the hint.
In the new darkness, I gathered the coffee cups onto the tray in the hopes that he would take the hint.
I played with the braid, as if it were other more intimate things, hoping that Jessica would take the hint.
Brian and I just laid in our bunks listening, hoping that Matthew and Edward or any of the others would take the hint and kick the boat back into gear.
And maybe, if she were entirely out of the water, and if she mentioned being cold a few more times, her elf-woven dress would take the hint and turn itself into a nice fur cloak.
Idiot that he was, she'd told him that was the reasonwell, almost told himthat first time he'd been awake, and he'd been too dense to take the hint.
If that damned fool calling himself a Herald can't take the hint, it's not my fault.
She made a quick hand-gesture behind her back, hoping Tremane would take the hint and come up to be presented, but he was already moving before she gestured.