writing on the wall

“We would hope that they would be willing to see the writing on the wall and make the changes that are necessary,” he said.

Manchester City midfielder Jack Grealish may have to leave this summer with "the writing on the wall" for him, says their former goalkeeper Shay Given.

As I’ve observed here recently, MAGA-adjacent European leaders like Viktor Orbán, Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen are discreetly backing away from the widening debris field of Trump chaos, not because they have experienced an ideological awakening but because they can see the writing on the wall.

It was really hard for me when it got canceled, yet I saw the writing on the wall.

“He saw the writing on the wall,” a GOP member of Congress explained.