lie ahead

English

Verb

lie ahead (third-person singular simple present lies ahead, present participle lying ahead, simple past lay ahead, past participle lain ahead)

1. (intransitive) To be going to happen in the future; to be in store.

   Our best days lie ahead.

   • 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 448:

     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.