come/crawl out of the woodwork
mainly disapprovingto appear after having been hidden or not active for a long time:
After you've been in a relationship for a while all sorts of little secrets start to come out of the woodwork.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Appearing & disappearing
- act
- bubble up
- come up
- conjure
- creep
- disappear off the face of the earth idiom
- do a disappearing/vanishing act idiom
- drain
- emerge
- erupt
- evaporate
- face
- form
- manifestation
- melt
- pop
- puff
- pull
- pull sth up
- woodwork
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