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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]Advertisement
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