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out of the woodwork
Idioms and Phrases
Emerging from obscurity or a place of seclusion. It often is put as come (or crawl) out of the woodwork , as in The candidates for this job were coming out of the woodwork . The expression alludes to insects crawling out of the interior wooden fittings of a house, such as baseboards and moldings. [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]Example Sentences
It’s no surprise to me that some of the same legal players from 2020 are coming out of the woodwork to help Jefferson Griffin now, because this is not just about one state Supreme Court seat.
Meanwhile, a boatload of other accusers and witnesses came out of the woodwork.
Like old friends coming out of the woodwork, like ex-boyfriends reaching out to me — “Hey, you wanna grab a coffee or something?”
Not enough of them yet, but I hold out hope that there are more who come out of the woodwork and refuse to play along with DeSantis’ quest to permanently erode democracy in Florida.
But in 2024, in an era when identity shapes so much of politics, the rise of the first Black woman and first Asian American to be nominated for president by a major party is drawing more identity groups out of the woodwork.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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