death knellnoun [ S ]
uk/ˈdeθ ˌnel/us/ˈdeθ ˌnel/a warning of the end of something:
The opening of the superstore will sound/toll the death knell for (= cause the failure of) hundreds of small independent shops.
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Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- ominous
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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