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

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

“Every time you think you’ve seen every scam and scoundrel that could possibly come down the pike, you’re surprised by a new one.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 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 John Trotwood Moore