Master confusing words with ease
Down the pike vs. Down the pipe
Down the pike
/daʊn ðə paɪk/Examples:
New opportunities are coming down the pike soon.Expect more innovations down the pike this year.Big changes are on the horizon down the pike.
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Down the pipe
/daʊn ðə paɪp/Examples:
Success eventually came down the pipe after years of effort.The decision came down the pipe from the board of directors.New directives came down the pipe earlier this month.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Down the pike is a shortened form of down the turnpike, a term from the era of toll roads, meaning something that is coming in the future.
- Down the pipe is another idiom that people mistakenly use when they mean down the pike.
- You remember pike by associating it with roads and pathways, envisaging something coming towards you.
- Pipe suggests something moving through a tube or being funneled, inappropriate for the context intended by down the pike.
- If youre thinking of future events or something upcoming, use down the pike'.
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