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 • Dec. 18, 2024

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

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

Only he ain't lookin' for trouble, an' he's as innocent as... well, he's the innocentest scab that ever come down the pike an' bumped into a couple of pickets.

From The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack