handwriting on the wall

[handwriting on the wall] {n. phr.}

A sign that something bad will happen.

* /When Bill's team lost four games in a row, he saw the handwriting on the wall./

* /John's employer had less and less work for him; John could read the handwriting on the wall and looked for another job./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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