IDIOMS Flashcards
(110 cards)
1
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That goes together
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HAND IN HAND
I.e: Fuel saving and NEO engines go hand in hand.
2
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To spend a significant portion of the day doing
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(Something) THE DAY AWAY
I.e: Hey, you are just studying the day away. Have a brake!
3
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Same as “for God’s sake”
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“FOR CRYING OUT LOUD”
I.e: For crying out loud, why is this person in front of us driving so slow?
4
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To do something excessively
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OVERDO IT
I.e: Don’t overdo it eating! / Take care to not overdo it on television!
5
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A huge responsibility on replacing someone
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TO HAVE BIG SHOES TO FILL
I.e: You’re gonna have big shoes to fill on accepting this role man.
6
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A indecisive person or situation
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WISHY-WASHY
I.e: You can’t be wishy-washy when dealing with an emergency situation.
7
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To be committed to achieving a goal / resolution / something
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STICK TO A GOAL / RESOLUTION / SOMETHING
I.e: They’re sticking to their goals of loosing 50 pounds by the end of this year because they’ve exercised every day for it.
8
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I agree with something, expressing enthusiasm, approval or excitement to something.
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I’M ALL ABOUT IT
I’M NOT ABOUT IT
I.e: - What do you think about getting pizza for tonight?
- Yeah, I’m all about it!
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Used when I want to skip over some story and go direct to the main point, to summarize
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ALL THAT TO SAY
TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT
I.e: A’ll that to say, just don’t go there.
10
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Something is imminent or about to happen soon / Someone is about to get soon
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IT’S RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER
I.e: The evolution is right around the corner. Single pilot narrow body planes are unavoidable.
11
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What’s you opinion / point of view?
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WHAT’S YOUR TAKE?
I.e: My take about the future of aviation is as follows: First and foremost, …..
12
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Don’t make assumptions about the future or don’t take precipitated decisions
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DON’T GET AHEAD OF YOURSELF
I.e: Simulator training allows the pilots to perceive how important is to get things step by step and to don’t get ahead of themselves when treating an emergency situation.
13
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If you do things right, if you act good
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IF YOU PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT
I.e: A real emergency situation is such as a simulator training. If you play your cards right, you’re gonna be successful.
14
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Take care by watching, looking at, or desiring something. (body part)
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KEEP AN EYE ON SOMETHING
I.e: Flying as a pilot, on the beginning, is not that easy, up to you learn how to distribute your attention and to keep an eye on certain things inside the cockpit.
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To don’t feel inferior after failing and having courage to start again. (body part)
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TO KEEP YOUR CHIN UP
I.e: If you fail in a simulator training, as a professional pilot you’ve gotta keep your chin up, pinpoint what went wrong and work on it to avoid repeating this mistake at the next opportunity.
16
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Cost a lot of money. It is/was too expensive (body part)
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COST AN ARM AND A LEG
I.e: Become a pilot here in Brazil nowadays is gonna cost you an arm and a leg.
17
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To help (body part)
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TO GIVE A HAND
I.e: I just gave him a hand to be asked to apply here in the airline, and he got the approval by himself.
18
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I’m listening to you (body part)
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I’M ALL EARS
I.e: Come on, tell me how was it, I’m all ears!
19
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To be very precise, accurate. (body part)
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HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD
I.e: You’ve gotta hit the hail when identifying a failure. To do so, apply the aircraft failure management and the company SOP.
20
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God Luck! (body part)
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BREAK A LEG!
I.e: Hey man, break a leg on your test. Just keep you chin up and the win is unavoidable!
21
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To give up (body part)
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TO GET COLD FEET
THROW IN THE TOWEL
I.e: Facing unexpected situations during flight, you absolutely don’t have the choice to get cold feet and to resume this task tomorrow. I’ve gotta work up to the end, doesn’t matter if you’re tired out or not.
Throw in the towel is not an option when you’re pushed to the brink during flight.
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To have a huge responsibility on replacing someone very competent who was there before you. (body part)
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TO HAVE BIG SHOES TO FILL
I.e: Yeah man, by being promoted to captain you’re gonna have big shoes to fill.
23
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A profession or activity that is my cup of tea. A vocation.
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A TRUE CALLING
I.e: I figured out that being a pilot was my true calling when I was 4.
24
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No point on claiming after having done something irreversible.
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DON’T CRY OVER THE SPILLED MILK
I.e: Man, ensure this is what you really want, because after done, no use cry ing over the spilled milk.
25
To be pushed to the limit, to an extreme stress
PUSHED TO THE BRINK
I.e: Some kinda failures can really push the pilot to the brink.
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To have the skills, the tools, the means, the mental or physical resources to accomplish with something.
TO HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL (uéruífól)
I.e: The simulator training is quite important in aviation to give to the pilot the required wherewithal to manage any kind on unexpected situation during flight.
27
All of sudden, out of blue, unexpected appearance or emergency of someone
OUT OF THE WOODWORK
I.e: That traffic came out of the woodwork.
28
Over than I / Hi / They can do
IN OVER MY HEAD
I.e: If a couple of unexpected situation happen in flight at same time, the pilot can easily feel that the situation is over his had, and the simulator training comes exactly to get the pilot able to manage different things.
29
Fail to achieve a goal, not enough
COME UP SHORT
I.e: During a simulator evaluation, throw in the towel is the shortest way to come up short in your test.
30
Emotionally involved, tense in a good way, deeply engaged to something, strongly concentrated and maybe filling anxious about it
KEEP ON THE EDGE OF THE SEAT
I.e: Landing is by far the phase of the flight where the pilots will be keeping themselves on the edge of the seat.
31
Something or some situation that made me feel impressed, like wow!
IT LEFT ME IN AWE (ó)
I.e: I decided to become a pilot when I was 4, right after watching the top gun movie. At that time that movie left me in awe.
32
Something that kinda feeds your brain
A GOOD FOOD FOR THOUGHT
I.e: The Airbus has released a couple of magazines that are really a good food for thought.
33
A hard situation where you have many ways to choose for
COME TO THE CROSSROADS
I.e: At that very moment, I caught myself coming to the crossroads, having to decide whether to land or to finish the procedure that we had just started.
34
Some thing has finally arrived unexpectedly of after a long time.
(SOMETHING/SOMEONE) HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
I.e: The pilot explained the tower that he was seeing that a vehicle had just entered the chat, crossing the runway.
35
The majority, generally, typically, popularly
BY AND LARGE
I.e: By and large that day I was doing well, but there were some mistakes that made me believe that I was far from be ready to the solo flight.
36
- A deadline, a limit, a time where we have to stop and move on to the next activity.
- Used as the word “period”meaning that there is no argument following what i’ve just said.
HARD STOP
I.e: - Definitely, the CRM is one of the best tools we have in aviation nowadays, hard stop.
- We have a hard stop at 12:30.
37
Something didn’t hit the expectations, was frustrating, or didn’t work
IT WAS A FLOP (FLÁP)
I.e: The Boeing attempts at recovering their reputation have been a flop.
38
To introduce a inference based on evidence or observation. Used after having said something and to relate this thing to the following that you’re about to say.
THIS GOES TO SHOW
I.e: Nowadays, only 5 airports here in Brazil are featured (fítchíãrd) with ILS CAT2 procedure. It goes to show how much room the authorities have to work in favor of aviation here.
39
An acknowledging that is impossible to succeed something, to indicate that I’m going to move to move to the next thing and I’m not going to get upset about it.
CAN’T WIN THEM ALL (kénwinênmól)
I.e: Something that I can see that the airlines could be better to their crews is the resting time. But it is a global problem, them can’t win them all and let’s wait for the solution.
40
Between upsides and downsides, in all circunstancies.
THROUGH THICK AND THIN
I.e: Through thick and thin, the aviation industry survives.
41
For few, it almost happened.
IT WAS A CLOSE CALL
I.e: They passed around 1000 ft of the ground during descent as a result for inserting a wrong altitude on the ALT SEL. It was a close call!
42
The trick or the secret to get / achieve / have something
THE TRICK OF THE TRADE / THE SECRET SAUCE
I.e: The trick of the trade to fly well manually is to distribute your attention in a “V” on the PFD.
43
If we can say it. By saying it.
IF YOU WILL
I.e: Unfortunately, I strongly believe that if something depend on the politicians action, if you will, absolutely nothing will change in Brazilian aviation.
44
To reduce stress, pain or discomfort. To reduce the intensity, to make something more tolerable.
TO TAKE THE EDGE OFF
I.e: Pilots use to have a beer on their free time aiming to take the edge off.
45
When things get hard, you/him/they will do your way
WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE (chãv)
I.e: Winging it is an important thing in aviation when push comes to shove.
46
Don’t change face expression, keeping it neutral.
TO KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE
I.e: After performing that terrible hard landing, I just kept a straight face and passed trough the passengers normally.
47
Go direct to the point, skipping over any preliminary explanation.
CUT TO THE CHASE
I.e: Cutting to the chase, the most important thing in aviation is the safety.
48
Means that someone has already thought of or done something (anticipated the situation) that another person is suggesting or about to do.
WAY AHEAD OF YOU THERE
I.e:
- As a captain you’ve got to always be way ahead of the plane, predicting the next flight phases in order to mitigate risks.
A: We still need to copy the ATC clearance.
B: Way ahead of you. I’ve already done it.
- I hope the dispatcher has gone way ahead of me and noticed the weather would be poor.
49
The opposite of “stand out”. To be discreet in terms of physical things.
BLEND IN
I.e:
50
The informal way to say “i’m finished”, or to indicate that i’ve completed something.
I’M THROUGH WITH SOMETHING
I.e:
- Once I’m through with the external inspection, I’m gonna join the airplane in order to accomplish with the remaining tasks.
- A:Have you finished the cockpit preparation? B: Yes, I’m through with it.
51
Something that gets helpful or useful.
COMES IN HANDY
I.e: The CRM comes in handy for threat and error management process.
52
There is no danger, no threat or no one around.
THE COST IS CLEAR
I.e: You can come in, the boss is no more in the room, the cost is clear.
53
Facing the same challenges, the same problems or the same difficult situation.
WE ARE IN THE SAME BOAT
I.e: My beginning in aviation was not that easy. I was looking for a job opportunities with a bunch of guys in the same boat.
54
Out of a risky situation, out of danger.
OUT OF THE WOODS
I.e: Facing an emergency situation the pilot will talk to the cabin crew once the aircraft is out of the woods.
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Out of a risky situation, out of danger.
OUT OF THE WOODS
I.e: Facing an emergency situation the pilot will talk to the cabin crew once the aircraft is out of the woods.
56
A short term solution, an improvisation, up to find a long term solution
TIE YOU/SOMETHING OVER
I.e: The snacks delivered on board aim only to tie you over.
57
A training/course/information that covers only the bare minimums. It is not or was not the full required training, it was a brief overview.
CRASH COURSE
I.e: The differences training among ATR 72-600 and the 72-500 is generally a crash course.
58
Cover everything from the beginning to end, comprehensive.
FROM SOUP (súp) TO NUTS
I.e: This handbook comes from sup to nuts, and will not let you in any kinda doubt.
59
The most innovative, the most modern in the market.
CUTTING EDGE
I.e: The A380 is the cutting edge of comercial aviation.
60
To get everything or nothing.
GO FOR BROKE
I.e: In an uncontrolled fire situation on board, I’ve gotta go for broke and put this plane on the ground asap.
61
Being aways is prepared, thinking ahead and quick to understand or respond.
AWAYS ON THE BALL
I.e: One of the simulator purposes is to make the pilots be aways on the ball, no matter what happens.
62
Become less skilled or proficient at something over the time.
TO LOSE YOUR TOUCH
I.e: The thing that I like to do the most to keep my flying skills updated is to fly the aircraft manually as most as I can, in order to don’t lose my touch.
63
Filling overwhelmed or stress, due to a lot of work to do.
TO BE SWAMPED
I.e: One of the fatigue effects is to make the pilot to fell swamped more easily.
64
Nothing hard…
NO BIGGIE
I.e: There is no biggie on piloting planes. Is easier than drive a car.
65
Think more about it.
SLEEP ON IT
I.e: Man, don’t resign yourself because of it. Sleep on it.
66
Get me angry.
PISS ME OFF
I.e: I hate roster changes. It really pisses me of. Other thing that easily get me pissed of is to fill starving.
67
To sleep
SHUT-EYE
I.e: I’m not good in shut-eye that long during the afternoons.
68
You are the best!
YOU ROCK!
I.e: I’m sure you can be approved on this check ride! You rock!
69
You’re right!
YOU HAVE A POINT
I.e: Recognizing you mistakes and saying “you have a point” is a part of CRM.
70
To succeed doing something difficult. To be successful doing something.
TO PULL IT OFF
I.e: During my solo flight, after being told by the instructor to go alone, I told him: Are you sure I can pull it off?
71
I have no longer patience to bear something or someone.
I’m already frustrated with something,
I’VE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH…
I.e: I’ve had it up to here with this job and I’m just about to quit it.
I can see that you’ve had up to here with me.
72
In a difficult situation or at a disadvantage.
I’M / YOU’RE BEHIND THE 8 BALL
I.e: Fire on board is a situation that really puts the pilot behind the 8 ball.
73
To get involved in a lot of details during an explanation in a way that make you loose time or miss the main subject
GETTING INTO THE WEEDS
I.e: I’m gonna tell you what, but there is a lot of details that happened there, please advise me if I get i to the weeds.
74
To discourage someone
TO POUR COLD WATER ON SOMETHING
I.e: I’m not trying pour cold water on your plans, but this way it will not work.
75
Above the average, above expectations.
ABOVE PAR / ON PAR / BELLOW PAR
I.e: Just delivering you a feed back, you were on par during the exam.
I thing that, for everything in life, we’ve gotta be above par.
76
Tasks, things or goals that are or were easy to achieve.
LOW HANGING FRUIT
I.e: Don’t worry man, this flight is gonna be a low hanging fruit to you, I’m sure!
77
The time to check if something really works, or where a idea is put to a practical test.
IT’S WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD
I.e: I don’t give to much importance to the check ride in simulator. I’m more concerned about how things will happen on route. The daily basis on route is where the rubber meets the road.
78
A challenge situation, or something that is been really hard to deal with or to accept.
AN UPHILL BATTLE
I.e: My beginning in aviation was a really up hill battle, since it was a bad period in the Brazilian aviation and there were a lot of expert pilots fighting for a job.
79
To practice what you say others to do.
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH
I.e: Being a flight instructor, people are all the time paying attention to what you do and that’s why is so important to practice what you preach.
80
Used when you have bad news to share but you don’t want do disappoint people expectations with your news, you say it as an introduction.
RAIN ON YOUR PARADE
I.e: I don’t want to rain on your parade but the company has just ended the job offers.
81
Think quickly, improvise, to respond rapidly.
TO THINK ON YOUR FEET
I.e: Sometimes in aviation you don’t have enough time to act, you really have to think on your feet, and that’s why having experience is so important.
82
When conditions become difficult and you can not give up easily. You are about to get fired for instance.
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH (tóf)
I.e: When the going gets tough in economy, by and large the executive aviation is the first one to be impacted.
83
To be in a risky or precarious situation.
TO BE ON THIN ICE
I.e: Paul has been on thin ice here in the company because of his bad behavior along last years.
84
Be careful, act slowly, be delicate. Used to advise about delicate tasks, to calm some one down, in a tense situation, while lifting something or even guiding a vehicle.
EASY DOES IT
I.e: During my solo flight my instructor told me: “easy does it man, don’t rush and just do exactly what you’ve done”.
Come on guy, easy does it, don’t you see that it is a fragile material?
85
Don’t take it too serious, because he/she or the information may not be entirely accurate. Be cautious about fully believing it.
TAKE IT / HIM / THEM WITH A GRAIN OF SALT
I.e: About the rumors regarding the company merge, I’d take it with a grain of salt since the authorities said they will not aprove it.
86
To talk to a person more than needed in order to make time
TO STALL
I.e: Go there, I’ll stall him for a minute.
Say what you have to say, stop stalling me!
87
When a persons has misunderstood or reversed the correct order of things
TO HAVE THIS BACKWARDS
I.e: I think you may have this backwards. Actually you have to set the flaps down before lowering the landing gear.
88
Something that happened during daylight, in front of everyone
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
I.e: How could it have happened in broad daylight, in front of everyone?
89
The situation just worsened or increased the intensity
FLARED UP
Ie: Since I noted that the situation was not flaring up, I could join a hold in order to dot the i’s and cross the t’s.
90
To rush things is against perfection
HASTE MAKES WASTE
I.e: They tried to rush the cockpit tasks, and ended up forgetting to copy the ATC clearance. As they say, haste makes waste!
91
To agree with some one or to have the same opinion or perspective on a particular issue.
SEE EYE TO EYE
I.e: As a flight manager, it is important to the captain to see eye to eye with the first officer when managing an emergency situation.
92
Something that has changed dramatically, or are opposite.
NIGHT AND DAY
I.e: The situation was like night and day after that smoke in the cockpit.
His behavior changed, and it was like night and day after that.
93
To examine or searching for something very carefully, thoroughly, searching for specific details.
TO COMB THROUGH SOMETHING
i.e: After a bird strike on the engine the pilots have to comb through the engine instruments trying to find any signs of engines malfunction.
The preliminary cockpit preparation is the moment when the pilots are gonna comb through the forecasted weather at the destination and alternates in order to determine the fuel for the flight.
94
A thorough search.
TO GO OVER SOMETHING WITH A FINE-TOOTH COMB
I.e: At least in the Airbus, after having prepared the MCDU as pilot flying, we usually ask the pilot monitoring to go over the MCDU with a fine-tooth comb in order to crosscheck if everything is as it should be.
95
To be completely confused or unable to find an answer or solution to a problem. You don’t know what to do next.
TO BE STUMPED
I.e: Fire on board is a situation that can really leave the pilots feeling stumped.
96
Logo de cara
RIGH AWAY / RIGHT FROM THE GET GO
I.e: Right away, I can notice that it concerns a boarding situation.
It was possible to perceive, right from the get go, that the root of the failure was the bird strike.
97
Very close distance, really very short way to get there.
SPITTING DISTANCE (spírim)
I.e: Due to the bad weather, we’ve gotta divert to XX city, a spitting distance from Campinas.
98
I’m in debit with you. I wanna reward you in the future.
I OWE YOU ONE
I.e: Thanks for exchanging this flight with me. I owe you one.
99
To understand or comprehend something
TO WRAP MY MIND AROUND
I.e: It took me a while to wrap my mind around the concept, but I finally understand it.
100
Something that was enjoyable, even if it has come to an end.
IT WAS GOOD WHILE IT LASTED
I.e: The job there was amazing. It was good while it lasted.
101
Later on / in the future
DOWN THE ROAD
I.e: I’m gonna do that down the road.
102
To hide or ignore something, usually a problem or mistake instead of dealing with it openly.
TO SWEEP SOMETHING UNDER THE RUG
I.e: I’ve warned them about this issue for a long time, but they’ve swept it under the rug instead of sorting this out.
103
104
To keep updated about some information
UP TO SPEED
I.E: One important part of the CRM is to bring the whole team up to seed regarding the important decisions.
105
To move or to act in a very slow speed/manner.
TO MOVE SOMETHING AT A SNAIL’S PACE
I.E: Unfortunately, our country is as always moving at a snail’s pace regarding technologies and navigation facilities that could enhance our development.
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The “last drop”, the last in a series of problems that finally caused someone to lose patience.
THE LAST STRAW
I.e: The mechanic trying to dispatch me without solving the problem was the last straw.
109
To recognize or to predict something negative before it happen.
TO SEE THE WRITING ON THE WALL.
I.e: After the last company announcement, I can clearly see the writing on the wall.
110
The evidence trhat something happened or that someone is guilty.
SMOKING GUN
I.E: In fact, so far there is no smoking gun pointing to miscommunication as a contributing factor to the accident.
