This idiom literally means “the wall finger”，and the fact meaning is“a sign or warning of impending disaster; a sign that something bad will happen; a feeling that one's number is up and so on. However, we should understand this idiom's Language shell and connotation, It begins with《The Bible》.
According to《The old testament.Daniel》,its fifth chapter describes: one day ,the Babylonian king named Belshazer was drinking with his ministers in the palace. Suddenly, a mysterious finger appeared, which faced with king and writes four strange words on the wall that the palace opposited the lampstand: MENE、MENE、TEKEL、UPHARSING.
King was scared, no one knew what words on the wall meaned. Afterwards, king turned to captured Jewish prophet for help, he knew the four words meaned that he would face with imminent disaster, Jewish prophet said:“MENE: God had numbered country's days and the country will perish. TEKEL: you have been weighed on the scales in order to show your debt. PERES: your kingdom is divided and given to the medes and persians.
As expected, when Belshazer was killed, 62-year-old Darius the Median replaced.
Finally, “the wall finger”represents the omen of dead body and destruction country.
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