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out of the woods
Idioms and Phrases
Out of difficulties, danger or trouble, as in We're through the worst of the recession—we're out of the woods now , or That pneumonia was serious, but Charles is finally out of the woods . This expression, alluding to having been lost in a forest, dates from Roman times; it was first recorded in English in 1792. The British usage is out of the wood .Example Sentences
"At some point by pre-arrangement, people came out of the woods all dressed in black. They were armed with what appeared to be at least one handgun and at least one knife," Fitzpatrick told reporters.
"Even though the cholera outbreak is controlled, we're not out of the woods. Right now, malaria is spiking and with the rainy season coming, it will shoot up," he tells the BBC.
But while it keeps the wolves from the door for now, he isn't out of the woods yet.
If your debt outlasts the Department of Education, alas, you’re not out of the woods yet.
Vatican officials cautioned that didn't mean the Pope was out of the woods.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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