'Nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse' = cái gật đầu cũng chắng khác gì cái nháy mắt đối với một con ngựa mù -> nghĩa là bạn không thể khiến ai hiểu được lời gợi ý, ý nói bóng gió của bạn nếu họ nhất quyết không chịu hiểu [you cannot get people to take a hint if they are determined not to].
Ví dụ
They determinedly beat about the bush as a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Jill: I keep hinting to the boss that I deserve a raise, but he doesn't seem to get the point.
Jane: I'm not surprised. A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse, so they say, and since there are six sightless steeds in the West End revival of Peter Shaffer's overwrought 1973 drama "Equus," you can just imagine how much winking and nodding goes on.
Well, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
I suppose that a nod is as good as a wink.
Discussions take place, and a nod is as good as a wink.
Well, a nod is as good as a wink, but at times the defendant has insisted on going on, and the worst has happened.
We all know that in those terms a nod is as good as a wink.
None of us was born yesterday, and we all know that a nod is as good as a wink.
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Even though I didn't have a work permit, a lot of smaller businesses would still hire me with a nod and a wink. The governor wants to clamp down on the nod-and-a-wink attitude of police officers who look the other way when drivers have a bit more to drink than they should have.
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a nod and a wink
BRITISH
If someone gives you a nod and a wink, they communicate something to you by saying it indirectly or by giving you a signal. Planners were today accused of giving `a nod and a wink' to a controversial school building project in the county.