As soon as she won the lottery, people started 'coming out of the woodwork', asking for money.
He's so shy that he always seems to 'fade into the woodwork' at parties.
We painted the walls white and the 'woodwork' red.
(..) Listen, you son-of-a-bitch! Let me lay it on the line. Johnny Fontane will never get that movie! No matter how many Dago Guinea greaseballs come out of the woodwork! - I'm German-Irish. - Listen here, my Kraut-Mick friend. - I'm going to make trouble for you! - I'm a lawyer. I haven't threatened... (..)1972 The Godfather