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Written all over it?

And a lot of parents are dealing with that type of situation, I am sure.

Sorry for having not come up with a better example. But you get the gist.

You get the gist, I hope, of the expression. For a person to have a certain quality written all over his/her face is to have that quality or characteristic visibly and conspicuously shown on their face.

Likewise, when people say a certain new project has doom written all of it, they mean to say the project will not succeed, not at all because it has shown all the signs of failure to begin with and all along.

Alright, concrete media examples of people or things having something or other written all over them:

1. Q: Do you think Heat first game will be Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon? -- Jeffrey.

A: If it’s against the Knicks, that has ABC on Sunday afternoon written all over it on back-to-back weekends.

- ASK IRA: Do coaches have an obligation to play stars? Sun-Sentinel.com, April 23, 2017.

2. All Canadians will pay the price for a federal budget that will result in significant job losses, weaker environmental protection, and unnecessary cuts to cherished public services, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

The CCPA says once the government’s three rounds of spending cuts are fully implemented, they will have resulted in a total of over 70,000 full-time job cuts (35,000 in the public sector and 37,000 in the private sector) and could raise the unemployment rate to 7.8%.