| 单词 | to come down the pike |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come down the pike 1. Chiefly North American colloquial. A road on which a toll is collected at a toll gate; = turnpike n. 5a. Now also more generally: any highway or main road. to come down the pike: to appear on the scene, to come to notice. to hit the pike: see hit v. 11a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible ariseOE to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225 'peara1382 appear1382 kithea1400 to show out?a1425 muster?1435 to come forthc1449 to look outa1470 apparish1483 to show forth1487 come1531 to come out?1548 peer1568 to look through1573 glimpse1596 loom1605 rise1615 emicate1657 emike1657 present1664 opena1691 emerge1700 dawn1744 to come down the pike1812 to open out1813 to crop out1849 unmask1858 to come through1868 to show up1879 to come (etc.) out of thin air1932 surface1961 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road > turnpike or toll-road turnpike road1745 turnpike1748 trust road1787 pike1812 toll-road1825 pike road1838 tollway1955 péage1973 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee xvi, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 377 Keep the pike till you come to the turn at Rotherford, and then you strike off into the by-road to the left. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. vii. 92 The road..had formerly been a thoroughfare to the river, but abandoned for many years after the laying of the new pike. 1897 Outing 30 385/1 There were ruts and gulleys in it.., and yet they called it a pike and collected toll. 1901 G. Ade 40 Mod. Fables 90 He had..one of the Sweetest Natures that ever came down the Pike. 1949 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Oct. 12/1 Unfortunately, the State cannot control roadside development on the sections of the pike completed thus far. 1968 Down Beat 7 Mar. 19/2 Jack thought that Jimmy was just about the greatest 'bone [sc. trombone player] that had ever come down the pike. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways i. ix. 16 I took an old road, a ‘pike’, the Kentuckians say, since their first highways were toll roads with entrances barred by revolving poles called ‘turn pikes’. 1990 J. Gerhart Intrepid Traveller 14 He..drove up the pike, nearly destroying the front-end suspension on three augmented manhole covers in the right tire-track. < as lemmas |
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