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up-and-coming adjective [ ˌʌp(ə)nˈkʌmɪŋ ]

• (of a person beginning a particular activity or occupation) making good progress and likely to become successful.
• "up-and-coming young players"
Similar: promising, budding, rising, coming, on the up and up, in the making, with potential, likely to succeed, talented, gifted, able, apt,
Opposite: on the way out,


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