out of the woods

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Felix Bohnsack, the technical head of the mission, praised everyone involved, from Backhaus's environment ministry to the German life guards' association DLRG, although he warned they were not yet "out of the woods".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

“We’re not out of the woods quite yet,” Singer said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

Intel stands to benefit from a CPU boom and a growing array of partnerships, but an analyst notes it’s “not out of the woods yet.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

So while the market seems relatively unscathed by the war right now, stocks are far from being out of the woods just yet.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

We take him back to the bug-out with us—because if we just let him go, he’ll probably die before he gets out of the woods, and I don’t want that on my conscience.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman