implicit message
hidden message

And there was a message implicit in the older marine's words.

The implicit message is, why can't they be more like us, informal and casual?

But perhaps more important is the implicit message on property rights.

The implicit message was that she hadn't gone there just to see him.

His implicit message has been: my methods may not be pretty, but I deliver.

When married couples set up their single friends, he said, the implicit message is "We want you to be like us."

"There is an implicit political message here," the official said.

Instead, the implicit message is: he can think about loftier things.

The pervasive implicit message is that you can make your life better.

The threat can have a form of an explicit or implicit message.