Brewer's: Handwriting on the Wall

(The). An announcement of some coming calamity. The allusion is to the handwriting on Belshazzar's palace-wall announcing the loss of his kingdom. (Dan. v. 5-31.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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