| 释义 | straw in the windidiomUK
 something that suggests what might happen: (预示某事的)迹象,征兆,风向标
 She described the theatre's closure as "a straw in the wind" as companies faced up to the realities of life after the lottery.她认为该剧院的关闭是一个信号,昭示着各家剧团终于放弃侥幸想法,开始面对现实了。
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Predicting things and intuition
 augur
 augury
 bellwether
 betcha
 bode
 herald
 horizon scanning
 hunch
 inkling
 instinct
 prefigure
 premonition
 premonitory
 presage
 prescience
 telepathy
 there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom
 unforeseeable
 unintuitively
 unreasoning
 
 
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