прозрачный намёк – English translation

broad hint (Anglophile); transparent hint; obvious hint; not-so-subtle hint (прозрачно намекая на то, что = a not-so-subtle hint that. Jaylen glanced down at his communicator, a not-so-subtle hint that time was short. | He knew her remark had been a not-so-subtle hint that he should start his selfexamination of what he really loved. Alexander Demidov); thinly veiled swipe (на; at denghu)