be crawling out of the woodwork

"You know all those confessors that have been crawling out of the woodwork since the Butcher thing closed?

"But we started the petition drive just 10 days ago and we've just been amazed at how many people are crawling out of the woodwork everywhere.

Even Richard Nixon's cronies are crawling out of the woodwork to urge the Bush gang to stop the madness.

And there's a new angle-every crackpot inventor who ever tried to patent a new paper clip is crawling out of the woodwork with ideas.

This 'stick-yourhead-in-the-sand' attitude is causing widespread uncertainty in the world, and scumbags like Pavel Kazakov are crawling out of the woodwork and taking advantage of it."

Women are crawling out of the woodwork but they are duplicitous and wizened, swamp people and ratbags, and they can blacken and turn leathery before I will condescend to them.

"Low yields are back, retail is showing signs of buying and corporate issues are crawling out of the woodwork," said John M. Atkins, senior analyst with Technical Data of Boston.

Since this was the week in which "Anonymous" (a ludicrous film) landed on these shores, I used the press release to describe how (see my snippet) all kinds of anti-Shakespeare craziness was crawling out of the woodwork.