come down the pike
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pike, short for turnpike (“toll expressway”).
Verb
[edit]come down the pike (third-person singular simple present comes down the pike, present participle coming down the pike, simple past came down the pike, past participle come down the pike)
- (chiefly US, of an event, thing, person) To emerge, come up; be about to happen; to approach or arrive on the scene; to present (itself or oneself).
- 1902, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 11, in Behind the Line:
- "[T]hey're the finest football leaders that ever came down the pike."
- 1949 November 14, “Art: Many Ways”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 2016-03-07:
- Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike.
- 2023 February 23, Michael Levenson, quoting Sheree Thomas, “Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
- “I knew it was coming on down the pike, just not at the rate it hit us,” said Sheree Renée Thomas, the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which was founded in 1949.