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Unfamiliar with "Nigger in a woodpile" idiom, can anyone explain?

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/10/completely-unacce...
translucent marvelous preventive strike
  07/10/17
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2114734&mc=1...
Dull vibrant famous landscape painting
  07/10/17
The link confirms the existence of the idiom, but does not e...
translucent marvelous preventive strike
  07/10/17
just watch the vid
Dull vibrant famous landscape painting
  07/10/17
I did there is a woodpile with a nigger in it, but I suspect...
translucent marvelous preventive strike
  07/10/17
https://youtu.be/cooncA2iVMA Reference :50
pink death wish corner
  07/10/17
It's almost resembles self reflection, but it's just narciss...
translucent marvelous preventive strike
  07/10/17
Yeah, it is addressed to blacks at the end it seems tho
pink death wish corner
  07/10/17
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2321539&mc=2...
Excitant Rough-skinned Macaca Candlestick Maker
  07/10/17
Is it similar to brass tacks?
Lime pervert partner
  07/10/17
?
translucent marvelous preventive strike
  07/11/17
"Nigger in the woodpile" or "nigger in the fe...
Paralegal Gianfranco
  10/01/25
Ty
Guarding of the Brit
  10/01/25
An African somewhere in a (usually Southern) person's ancest...
habeas penem
  10/01/25


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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:25 PM
Author: translucent marvelous preventive strike

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/10/completely-unacceptable-mp-apologises-after-woodpile-remarks/

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:26 PM
Author: Dull vibrant famous landscape painting

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2114734&mc=103&forum_id=2

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:36 PM
Author: translucent marvelous preventive strike

The link confirms the existence of the idiom, but does not explain it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671144&forum_id=2)#33745271)



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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:52 PM
Author: Dull vibrant famous landscape painting

just watch the vid

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:55 PM
Author: translucent marvelous preventive strike

I did there is a woodpile with a nigger in it, but I suspect it's a reference to something predating the cartoon.

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:39 PM
Author: pink death wish corner

https://youtu.be/cooncA2iVMA

Reference :50

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:44 PM
Author: translucent marvelous preventive strike

It's almost resembles self reflection, but it's just narcissism.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671144&forum_id=2)#33745356)



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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:56 PM
Author: pink death wish corner

Yeah, it is addressed to blacks at the end it seems tho

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:43 PM
Author: Excitant Rough-skinned Macaca Candlestick Maker

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2321539&mc=20&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671144&forum_id=2)#33745345)



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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:55 PM
Author: Lime pervert partner

Is it similar to brass tacks?

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Date: July 11th, 2017 1:32 AM
Author: translucent marvelous preventive strike

?

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Date: October 1st, 2025 1:36 AM
Author: Paralegal Gianfranco (✅🍑)

"Nigger in the woodpile" or "nigger in the fence" is a figure of speech originating in the United States meaning "some fact of considerable importance that is not disclosed—something suspicious or wrong".[1]

The phrase means an unknown factor, something that causes things to turn out differently than would normally be assumed. Woodpiles used to be stacked loosely with spaces, to avoid rot (see illustration) and were presented by racists as natural hiding places for Black people, where they could either nap (fitting the stereotype of the lazy Black man) or spy on their White neighbors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671144&forum_id=2)#49316610)



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Date: October 1st, 2025 3:02 AM
Author: Guarding of the Brit

Ty

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Date: October 1st, 2025 8:13 AM
Author: habeas penem

An African somewhere in a (usually Southern) person's ancestry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671144&forum_id=2)#49316851)