see coming

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to realize that there is going to be a problem before it happens

In the movies · 45

• I bet you never saw this coming ...The Matrix1999
• I didn't see that coming. Well, what do you want next?The Grand Budapest Hotel2014
• Everyone was feeling so good, we just didn't see it coming.American History X1998
• You didn't see that coming?Avengers: Age of Ultron2015
• "Anya, I see it coming."Being John Malkovich1999
• I didn't see that coming.Free Guy2021
• I didn't see it coming.Dune: Part Two2024
• Did you see it coming?Loving Vincent2017

Learn it in full scenes

• American History X1998
  • Sweeney Makes Danny a Deal
  • Derek Vinyard's TV Interview
  • The Basketball Court Bet
• Free Guy2021
  • Guy's Morning in Free City
  • Guy Orders a Cappuccino
  • Blue Shirt Guy Breaks the Rules

From the same entry

• for all to see
• let me see see
• see for yourself
• see for what they are is
• seeing that
• see you
• you see
• see about
• see in
• see off
• see out
• see out

More idioms

• a breath of fresh air
• make love
• be barking up the wrong tree
• be for a good cause
• bring to life
• carry too far
• get off the ground
• have a thing about
• no thanks to
• work like a charm
• have a fit
• a can of worms