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come/crawl out of the woodwork
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come/crawl out of the woodwork
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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But that little creature better not crawl out of the woodwork [now] either.
Through a joke, darkly: Augusten Burroughs is the gay humorist of the ... by Kennedy, Sean / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Until drastic action is taken, the Buford Furrows will crawl out of the woodwork and proliferate along with the increasingly obscene numbers of guns that hold all of us hostage in this hate-riddled society.
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But critics crawl out of the woodwork every year, point to his 5-10 postseason mark and say Schottenheimer can't win the big ones.
IT'S ONE MORE SHOT FOR SCHOTTENHEIMER by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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