in store
in store
Awaiting (one); prepared (for one). No one knows what the future has in store. But we can try to prepare accordingly. There are many adventures in store for you, but first you must complete your training.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
*in store (for someone)
awaiting someone in the future. (*Typically: be ~; hold something ~; lie ~.) None of us knows what lies in store for us tomorrow. Some good lies in store for me, I think.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
in store
1. In readiness, in preparation for future use, as in I'm keeping several videos in store for your visit. Edmund Spenser used this idiom in The Faerie Queene (1590): "Then for her son . . . In her own hand the crown she kept in store." [1300s]
2. in store for. Forthcoming for, awaiting, as in There's trouble in store for you. [Mid-1600s]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
in store
1. Forthcoming: great trouble in store for her.
2. In reserve; stored.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
- be in store
- be in store (for one)
- lie in store
- hold (something) in store (for one)
- hold in store
- have (something) in store (for one)
- have in store
- store
- liquor store
- five-and-ten