taste of things to come

phrase

: 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

That’s just a taste of things to come. — Elaine Yu,anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025

And this, perhaps, gives us a taste of things to come as the bull run nears its crescendo. — Charles Wayn, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025

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

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

Recent surprises in Asian oil consumption may be only a taste of things to come. — Michael Levi, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015

Rhymes for taste of things to come

• abomasum
• become
• checksum
• humdrum
• income
• outcome
• pisum
• succumb
• therefrom
• wherefrom
• bum
• chum