English Idiom: Out of the woods
A few weeks ago, I introduced the phrase in the weeds. If you have not read that post yet or forgot what it means, you can click on it and read it now.
Anyway, out of the woods means that you are out of trouble or danger.
So when you get into trouble, you are in the weeds, but when you get out of trouble, you are out of the woods.
I don’t understand how that happens exactly, but somehow when our situation changes, so does our imagined position.