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*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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in store (for somebody/something)

planned or likely to happen We have a big surprise in store for you. She's got a difficult few months in store, with her husband's illness.

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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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in store

1. Forthcoming: great trouble in store for her.

2. In reserve; stored.

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