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

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Byline: Alison Thain, Chief Executive, Tees Valley Housing Group Once more, as we enter a new year, I feel I can look back on a successful year and forward to the challenges which lie ahead of us in the social housing sector, not just in the coming 12 months, but during the next four years. New focus required to improve the quality of life by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) I want us to leave Dubai totally geared up for the challenges that lie ahead of us and the biggest of those is the championship. Football: DESERT STORMERS; McLEISH: Dubai trip can win Gers league by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)			level with levy on liar is not believed when he tells the truth liberate from liberty license license to do lick lick and a promise lick at lick boots lick chops lick into shape lick lips Lick my arse! lick of work lick off lick up lick wounds lickety-split licking lid lid on lie lie about lie ahead of lie alongside lie around lie at anchor lie at death's door lie back lie behind lie beyond lie doggo lie down lie down on lie down on the job lie down under lie fallow lie in lie in ruins lie in state lie in wait lie like a rug lie low lie out lie through teeth lie to lie with lie within life			lids lids lids lids lids Lids & Lashes Lidstone, Young, Anderson LIDT LIDU LIDV Lidval, Fedor Lidval, Fedor Ivanovich Lidy Groot Congress Events Lidzbarski, Mark lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie about lie about lie about lie about lie about lie about or around lie across lie adjacent to lie against lie ahead of Lie algebra Lie algebra homomorphism Lie algebras lie alongside lie around lie around lie around lie around lie around lie at anchor lie at death's door lie at the bottom of lie awake lie back lie back lie before lie before someone or something lie behind lie behind lie beside lie beyond Lie bracket lie concealed lie contiguous to Lie Coordination Committee lie detector lie detector lie detector lie detector Lie detector test

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