English Explanatory Dictionary

the shape of things to come

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. That is trendsetting and foreshadowing; pointing the way ahead.

Word forms

the shape of things to come

Etymology

From the novel The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells (1933).

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