lie ahead

verb

verb

To be going to happen in the future; to be in store.

Our best days lie ahead.
Here, too, there is a marked change in the character of the country, for Tondu lies at the foot of the imposing mass of the central group of Glamorgan mountains, betokening the stiff gradients that lie ahead.1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 448:

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