It doesn’t mean we’re out of the woodwork yet

Carol Roth, author of “You Will Own Nothing”, was being interviewed by Megyn Kelly on The Megan Kelly Show. She’s talking about how the economy has not yet fully recovered, and says at one point, “but it doesn’t mean we’re out of the woodwork yet.”

This is a mashup of “not out of the woods yet” (have not yet escaped the danger) and “coming out of the woodwork” (appear unexpectedly or from unusual places). “Wood” and “out” are in both of the idioms, contributing to the mixup. You can hear the malaphor here:

https://podcasts.google.com/search/The%20Megyn%20Kelly%20Show

A big thanks to Verbatim for hearing this one and sending it in!