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词组 woodwork
释义 woodwork
noun▶ come out of the woodwork; crawl out of the woodwork; creep out of the woodwork
(of someone or something unpleasant) to appear; to arrive on the scene; to emerge UK
Usage is often with humorous intent but the allusion is to insects normally found in the woodwork–woodworm, deathwatch beetle, cockroach, etc.
  • They crawled out of the woodwork, / And they whispered in your brain[.] — Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Candle in the Wind, 1973
  • Crept out of the woodwork. — Harpers & Queen, August 1977
  • some sad old bag who has come out of the woodwork ’cos she doesn’t want to be alone any more — Philip Ralph, Mr Nobody, 2003
  • Foes of women in combat crawl out of the woodwork. — Chicago Sun-Times, 5 April 2003
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