in the offing

in the offing likely to happen or appear soon 很可能即将发生（或出现）的： there are several initiatives in the offing. 有好几个倡议即将出台。 in the offing(informal)likely to appear or happen soon即将发生I hear there are more staff changes in the offing.我听说有更多的人事变动在酝酿中。

• phenylethylamines
• Isospondyli
• leucoxene
• dismayedness
• some people have all the luck
• tolar
• noble potential
• materials scientist
• bare to
• life gun
• barter system
• soily
• antimony 124
• flood plain
• window-washing
• horse-trade
• let that pass
• slickered
• tenuiss
• vain threat / promise etc
• there is little（或nothing）to choose between
• methylene blue
• sailor's champagne
• semitendinosus
• postposition
• boruga
• unrwas
• bear market
• darter
• staps
• Verticillium
• sequitur
• standardizings
• contradictory
• midyears
• irreligion
• social structure
• dark tent
• go in at one ear and out at the other
• meeknesses
• deregulatory
• roomage
• stream capture
• ebullioscopic
• rmes
• insnarers
• take a bow
• Baluchistan
• speech recognizer
• jerkwater
• desmolases
• spiderish
• andantinos
• scalene triangle
• misanthropes
• volcanoes
• phonings
• bookshelves
• beefwoods
• armistice
• extant
• in running/working order
• self-solicitude
• damyankee
• BAAB
• put this show on the road
• double negation
• demised
• sidelong
• frogeyed
• witlessly
• stars in your eyes
• panoptical
• instantised
• locked-oscillator detector
• geedunk
• I wouldn't be seen / caught dead
• gownsman
• on-off
• flash arc
• duodiode-triode
• pusztas
• bristle up
• calsequestrin
• secondary rainbow
• service reservoir
• column operations
• b.f.a
• poppyhead
• intracavity absorption spectroscopy
• (be) in evidence
• chicken hawk
• Arabian bird
• sentinelship
• beer scale
• slate-coloureds
• run its course
• distinguer
• the waterline
• monotheistically