read the runes
UK literaryto understand what will happen in the future, by looking at what is happening now:
He was the first of the Eastern leaders to read the runes and make political changes to stay in power.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- projection
- prophesy
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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