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Handwriting on the wall
Often when people see bad things coming or avoid disaster because of their
alertness they say, "I can read the handwriting on the wall".
This is from the Bible, in Dan 5:5-30. The king of Babylon had seen a
hand without a body write a series of words on the wall that none of his
wise men could decipher. They called upon the Jewish prophet Daniel, who
informed them that the writing was God's prophesy that the Babylonian
kingdom would be overthrown; that night, the Medo-Persian Empire attacked
Babylon. Therefore, the ability to "read the handwriting on the wall"
is the ability to see bad things coming down the road.
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