wink at
Verb
Meaning
give one's silent approval to
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Did Donald Trump wink at Vladimir Putin?
So they would license it in the usual willy nilly patchwork fashion and Netflix would lose out big time because they wink at VPNs.
One person close to Gabbay said the Labor leader “made a deliberate decision to take the risk that his base would flee in order to wink at centrist and soft-right voters.”
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see."
By the sketch's end, she would deliver a humorous "moral to the story," giggle, wink at the camera, and blow out the candle.
The town policeman continued cricking his neck as he strolled to the pub and there were those who said they saw him wink at a tight-knit group of farmers in the saloon bar.