coming down the pike

Verb

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)

1. (US, person, thing) To emerge, come up; be about to happen; to approach or arrive on the scene; to present (itself or oneself).
   • "[T]hey're the finest football leaders that ever came down the pike."1902, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 11, in Behind the Line

   Synonyms:

   come down the line, come down the road