There is no hidden meaning behind it. A word of advise. Contrary to what women think, we men don't do hints and we rarely understand hints anyway. So take what he says at face value unless he is using a figure of speech or a metaphor.
Contrary to what young girls think, hints are an alien language to men. It is the very reason girls get frustrated and angry at men because y'all do too much hinting and ssend us to tumbaktoo yet you want us to go to the terrace and you get frustrated when we go to tumbaktoo.
