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Phrase(s): 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.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs