come/crawl out of the woodwork

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to appear after being hidden or not active for a long time, especially in order to do something unpleasant. After you've been in a relationship for a long while, all sorts of little secrets start to come out of the woodwork. Racists and extreme nationalists are crawling out of the woodwork to protest at the sudden increase in the number of immigrants.

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come up/turn up trumps
come upon
come what may
come with the territory
come within a whisker of
come within an ace of
come within an inch of

come/crawl out of the woodwork
come/get off your high horse
come/get to grips with
come/go along for the ride
come/go cap in hand
come/go down in the world
come/go under the hammer
come/go up in the world

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