in store

Idioms & Phrases

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]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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