taste of things to come

idiom

: something (such as a brief experience) that is the first of similar things to follow

That first storm was just a taste of things to come.

Examples of taste of things to come in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Instead of a one-off, Jan. 6 might just be a bad taste of things to come, with the peaceful transfer of power — the foundation of our election system and an exemplar to the world — becoming just another artifact of a political time gone by. —Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023

In a taste of things to come, Quidax cut salaries in July. —Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2022

In what Ukraine warned was a taste of things to come for Russia’s military, at least eight Russian warplanes were wrecked last week in a series of explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea. —Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022

That may just be a taste of things to come. —Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2022

Big leveraged buyouts are back, and this year’s crop might just be a taste of things to come. —Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2021

Call it a taste of things to come. —Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2021

But that’s only a small taste of things to come. —Chris Smith, BGR, 2 Nov. 2021

Three discrete events, a taste of things to come: ExxonMobil XOM and Chevron CVX lost shareholder votes related to their strategy for climate change, while Shell lost a court case in the Netherlands that will require it to speed up its emissions reductions. —Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 3 June 2021