Brewer's: Verbum Sap

[A word to the wise.] A hint is sufficient to any wise man; a threat implying if the hint is not taken I will expose you. (Latin, Verbum sapienti.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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