First of all, you can infer meaning. Secondly, of course. Say you have a friend where you live on a reliable back and forth, and you're caught doing something either ridiculous or something that can be teased about into perpetuity. Would you let that chance slip away?

[The answer is no, and don't try lying to him Hilda.]

I am not in the habit of giving out low hanging fruit that is practically on the ground.