Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An ominous warning; a prediction of bad luck.
Etymologies
- From the Biblical story in the Book of Daniel; mysterious writing on the wall during King Belshazzar's feast points to the downfall of the Babylonian Empire. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The city had been on friendly terms with Macedonia, but when Philip took Amphipolis the citizens had seen the writing on the wall and allied themselves with Athens for protection.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘writing on the wall’.
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RELI - Biblical collocations
Biblical collocations and collocations relating to the Bible. This is just a stud. The topic is enermous.
Acts of the Apostles, Adam and Eve, book oath, carob bean tree, epistle lesson, felix culpa, festival of lights, ficus sycomorus, fig leaf, Geneva Bible, Gog and Magog, golden rule and 324 more...
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Please see attached
things seen. got the idea from the list Stuffie: Just Do It!
red, stars, dead people, the sights, a man about a dog, how it goes, how it went, double, it coming, you, the error of your..., no evil and 47 more...
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
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Artistic Means
Tweets
Looking for tweets for writing on the wall.
bilby *packs up his graffiti kit in a used pizza box and runs away* Mar 10, 2009
rolig Hurry up, Bilby! Others are waiting to use the loo! Mar 10, 2009
bilby *scribbles* Mar 10, 2009
bilby No peeking! I'm not finished yet! Mar 10, 2009
bilby *scribbles* Mar 10, 2009