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lie ahead of

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lie ahead of someone or something

 and lie before someone or something 

1. to exist in front of someone or something. A small cottage lay ahead of us near the trail. A huge mansion lay before the car at the end of the road.

2. to be fixed in the future of someone or something. I just don't know what lies ahead of me. We don't know what lies before our country.

See also: ahead, lie, of