handwriting on the wall

handwriting on the wall
Synonyms and related words:
Friday, Friday the thirteenth, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, book of fate, constellation, cup, danger sign, destination, destiny, dies funestis, doom, early symptom, end, falling barometer, fatality, fate, foredoom, forewarning, fortune, future, gathering clouds, high sign, ides of March, inevitability, kismet, lot, moira, omen, planets, portion, precursor, preliminary sign, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prodroma, prodrome, quarantine flag, red flag, red light, skull and crossbones, stars, storm petrel, stormy petrel, symptom, thundercloud, thunderhead, unlucky day, warning, warning sign, warning signal, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, yellow flag, yellow jack

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  • handwriting on the wall — see under ↑write • • • Main Entry: ↑hand * * * handwriting (is) on the wall see ↑wall, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑handwriting …   Useful english dictionary

  • handwriting\ on\ the\ wall — • writing on the wall • handwriting on the wall n. phr. literary 1. A warning; a message of some urgency. this nuclear plant is about to explode, I think, the chief engineer said. We d better get out of here in a hurry, the handwriting is on the… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • 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… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • 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… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • The handwriting on the wall — Handwriting Hand writ ing ( r[imac]t [i^]ng), n. 1. The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is written by hand; manuscript. [1913 Webster] {The handwriting on the wall}, a doom… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • (the) handwriting on the wall — the ˌhandwriting on the ˈwall idiom (NAmE) = writing on the wall Main entry: ↑handwritingidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • handwriting on the wall — a sign that something bad will happen The handwriting is on the wall. Business conditions are bad so probably nobody will get a pay raise this year …   Idioms and examples

  • the handwriting on the wall — phrasal Etymology: so called fr. the mysterious handwriting in the Bible that appeared on the wall of Belshazzar s palace to foretell his doom (Dan 5) : a doom foreshadowed : an omen of one s fate usually unpleasant …   Useful english dictionary

  • handwriting on the wall — phrasal an omen of one s unpleasant fate …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • handwriting on the wall — noun A divine prediction or sentence to fate …   Wiktionary

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