flypaper
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How to use flypaper in a sentence
More begets more, and spending tends to stick at higher levels, which is why the phenomenon is known as “the flypaper effect.”
But they were as impotent as two flies that had rolled in the sticky slime of some super-flypaper.
The Raid on the Termites | Paul ErnstHe prowls around and challenges man until he comes to the flypaper; he then slinks away.
Autobiography of a YOGI | Paramhansa YoganandaPresident Cleveland—And are you using that flypaper according to directions?
Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions | Slason ThompsonBut he kept on and drew nearer and nearer, breathing hard and gathering flies like a flypaper.
The Wheels of Chance | H. G. Wells
The agricultural model for instance, which was practicable, proved a kind of flypaper for these busybodies.
The Wrecker | Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
British Dictionary definitions for flypaper
/ (ˈflaɪˌpeɪpə) /
paper with a sticky and poisonous coating, usually hung from the ceiling to trap flies
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