come out of the woodwork

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   if you say that sb comes / crawls out of the woodwork, you mean that they have suddenly appeared in order to express an opinion or to take advantage of a situation

   No matter how many Dago Guinea greaseballs come out of the woodwork!

In the movies · 2

• I got the leads coming out of the woodwork.Zodiac2007
• No matter how many Dago Guinea greaseballs come out of the woodwork!The Godfather1972
• The old woman's most distant relations had come foraging out of the woodwork.The Grand Budapest Hotel2014

Learn it in full scenes

• Zodiac2007
  • Darlene Ferrin's Last Drive
  • The Zodiac Confession Call
  • Zodiac's Cipher Reaches the Chronicle
• The Godfather1972
  • Bonasera Asks for Justice
  • Woltz Refuses Johnny the Role
  • Vito Refuses Sollozzo's Deal

From the same entry

• blend into the woodwork