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noun
flypaper  n.  A strip of paper that is coated with a sticky substance and suspended from an overhead object to trap and kill flies; also, a similar paper poisoned so as to kill flies on contact.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Flypaper" Quotes from Famous Books



... and drew nearer and nearer, breathing hard and gathering flies like a flypaper. In the valley he was hidden. Then the road began to rise, and the resistance of the pedals grew. As he crested the hill he saw her, not a hundred yards away from him. "It's her!" he said. "It's her—right enough. It's the suit's done it,"—which was ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells



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