- 看过 handwriting on the wall 的人也看了 :
- doom
- forewarning
- inevitability
- premonition
- presentiment
- sign
- warning
- writing on the wall
handwriting on the wall 的定义
- Also, writing on the wall. A warning or presentiment of danger, as in The company was losing money, and seeing the handwriting on the wall, she started to look for another job. This expression comes from the Bible, in which the prophet interprets some mysterious writing that a disembodied hand has inscribed on the palace wall, telling King Belshazzar that he will be overthrown.
handwriting on the wall 近义词
impending misfortune
handwriting on the wall 的近义词 5 个
更多handwriting on the wall例句
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- A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
- Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.
- He leant against the wall of his refuge, notwithstanding this boast, and licked the ice to moisten his parched lips.