offing

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Every ship in the offing is a living thing to them, and the appearance of a man-of-war sends them sleepless to bed.

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  1. noun The part of the sea visible from shore that is very distant or beyond anchoring ground.
  2. idiom in the offing In the near or immediate future; soon to come: with exams finished and graduation in the offing.
  3. idiom in the offing Nearby; at hand.

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  • Exciting news today shows that the future you paint may well be in the offing -- ... —  Brain Blogger
  • Yes, I see the lower highs and lower lows but saying that means a major decline in the offing is, i believe, wrong. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • But I certainly hope volume control is in the offing, as SteveJ suggests. —  MyAppleMenu
  • It's also time to name names and make it crystal-clear to the American people that REAL change is in the offing, and those who oppose it are the same roaches who screwed things up in the first place. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Before the current fiscal year runs out, more of the same may be in the offing --- especially in regard to oil bonds, if the oil refiners are to emerge in the black -- so that we may reach a paradoxical situation of the off-budget liabilities approximating to the explicitly stated fiscal number for 2008-09 which is Rs 133,287 crore. —  Daily News & Analysis
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