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Meaning of come down the pike | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To emerge, come up; be about to happen; to approach or arrive on the scene; to present (itself or oneself).

US, person

Examples

“"[T]hey're the finest football leaders that ever came down the pike."”
“Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike.”
““For me, it's a harbinger of larger cultural changes coming down the pike.””
““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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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