| 释义 |
come out of the woodwork(Of an unpleasant person or thing) emerge from obscurity; be revealed: would-be informants came crawling out of the woodwork...- And another thing - you should have seen all the obscure relatives that came out of the woodwork for this funeral.
- But there's also a very interesting phenomenon occurring here, and that is as we continue to evacuate people out of the Superdome, we're finding more and more people coming out of the woodwork, so to speak.
- But I started dealing in them and found collectors just coming out of the woodwork.
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