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come down the pike



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Idioms and Phrases

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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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