come down the pike

Idioms  

1. Appear, become prominent, as in He was the best writer to come down the pike in a long time. The noun pike here is short for “turnpike” or “road.” [Slang; mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

Though trade friction would probably crimp the company’s exports, she wouldn’t talk about what may come down the pike.

From Los Angeles Times

"Local elections officials are struggling in the current system. They have to deal with these constant changes that come down the pike, an environment of disinformation, low pay, long hours, and that's why we see a whole bunch of turnover in the system."

From Salon

“We are in the paranoid-terrified phase of what’s going to come down the pike,” Andrew Schoelkopf, then the president of the Art Dealers Association of America, said at an industry panel this year.

From New York Times

Yet Bechdel’s new work illustrates the degree to which she has spent her life in motion — getting into “almost every new fitness fad to come down the pike,” she writes, as well as activities with long histories.

From Washington Post

Instead, they prime us to latch on to other sources of uncertainty that come down the pike later on, and become anxious about them, even if they wouldn’t have previously caused anxiety.

From Washington Post