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writing on the wall

noun as in ominous indication

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"I know the pain that I'm going through," she says, "and I could just see the writing on the wall that this was going to be a disaster for a lot of families and teenagers."

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Everyone young, entrepreneurial and educated saw the writing on the wall.

DraftKings has seen the writing on the wall.

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“I didn’t feel like it was being handled appropriately, and I kind of saw the writing on the wall, that it was something DEA was trying to brush under the rug,” Doherty said in court.

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She added: "Kate Forbes was the future once - but now, like many of her counterparts in the SNP, she can see the writing on the wall. The truth is this is a tired government with no vision and no ideas."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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