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come down the pike

verb

Etymology

From pike, short for turnpike (“toll expressway”).

Definitions

  1. To emerge, come up

    To emerge, come up; be about to happen; to approach or arrive on the scene; to present (itself or oneself).

    • "[T]hey're the finest football leaders that ever came down the pike."
    • Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike.
    • “For me, it's a harbinger of larger cultural changes coming down the pike.”

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