the writing is on the wall

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used when you are describing a situation in which there are signs that sth is going to have problems or that it is going to be a failure

   The writing is on the wall there.

In the movies · 1

• The writing is on the wall there.Too Big to Fail2011
• Oh, so, I have thought about my writing-on-the-wall moment.Rye Lane2023
• Poor Ellen had to call us one time because her mother was writing her own bible on the walls.To the Bone2017

Learn it in full scenes

• Rye Lane2023
  • Yas Teases Dom at His Gallery Show
  • Yas Buys Nathan's Photo at the Show
  • Dom and Yas Meet in Peckham

From the same entry

• in writing
• be written all over face
• have written all over it
• nothing to write home about
• that's all she wrote
• not worth the paper it's written on
• write away
• write back
• write down
• write in
• write in
• write into

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