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- noun idiomatic To provide a
hint or toreveal partial information in order to gainattention or arouseinterest .
Etymologies
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Probably an allusion to the flirtatious practice by some young women, especially in the first half of the twentieth century, of raising a long skirt sufficiently to reveal a bare ankle but no more than that.
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