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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come down the pike

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 ● Sep. 11, 2020

Daniel Mallory Ortberg: Friends, today is going to be a live chat for the ages—these are some of the most intense problems I’ve seen come down the pike in a long while.

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2019

So what will be the next thing to come down the pike?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2017

Of course, those aren’t all the contenders—Martin Scorsese’s “Silence,” for one, is about to come down the pike.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2016

She was han'som' as a three-year-old an' cu'd out-dance, out-ride, out-sing an' out-flirt any other gal that ever come down the pike.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood