the writing is on the wall
B2CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister
There are clear signs that something, usually failure or an unwelcome end, is going to happen.
When the third branch closed, the writing was on the wall for the whole chain.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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