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n. (context idiomatic English) (form of alternative form writing on the wall English) A divine prediction or sentence to fate.
Usage examples of "handwriting on the wall".
You're too busy running away from your creditors to see anything but the handwriting on the wall.
The woman said someone would be over to check the handwriting on the wall soon.
Although Fraden was probably the only man on Sangre yet capable of deciphering the handwriting on the wall, the Brotherhood had lost the wax.
Enterprising men-especially ones who can see the handwriting on the wall-can find avenues of escape in many places.
Look up, to the order of the j, stars, and handwriting on the wall of the firmament.
That wasnt handwriting on the wall, that was blazing comets in the sky.
This and much more similar did Cthulhu inflict upon mankind, and humankind began to see the handwriting on the wall--a wretched death for all and Cthulhu triumphant.