Crawl out of the woodwork
verb phrase
To appear, materialize, interfere, etc, as or like something very loathsome: A lot of them are weirdos who just crawled out of the woodwork/ Any time there’s a juicy scandal a lot of creeps come out of the woodwork
[1960s+; fr the notion that worms, spiders, maggoty creatures, rats, etc, dwell in hidden places]
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