"out of the woods" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: En-au-out of the woods.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} out of the woods, {{en-PP}} out of the woods
  1. (idiomatic) Out of peril; likely to recover or prevail over trouble; finished with the worst or most threatening part of a problem or illness. Tags: idiomatic Translations (out of peril): kuivilla (Finnish), kuivilla vesillä (Finnish), selvillä vesillä (Finnish), tiré d’affaire (French), sorti d’affaire (French), hors de danger (French), sorti de l’auberge (French), Kua tae te waka ki uta (english: Literally "The boat has reached the shore.") (Maori), вне опа́сности (vne opásnosti) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-out_of_the_woods-en-prep_phrase-d4qDE8vB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of 'out of peril': 70 30
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see out of, the, woods.
    Sense id: en-out_of_the_woods-en-prep_phrase-JQ3d2Ds1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: good to go

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