SINCE 1828
come/crawl out of the woodwork
idiomDefinition of come/crawl out of the woodwork
disapproving
: to appear suddenly usually because one sees an opportunity to get something for oneself As soon as she won the lottery, people started coming out of the woodwork, asking for money.
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