birdlime 的 2 个定义
- a sticky material prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, and smeared on twigs to catch small birds that light on it.
bird·limed, bird·lim·ing.
- to smear with birdlime.
- to catch or capture, as with birdlime: to be birdlimed by flattery.
birdlime 近义词
等同于 cement
更多birdlime例句
- In effect both father and son became fast to the birdlime figure, when they were stung to death by ten thousand bees.
- Yet this is that wherewith the world is taken, and runs mad to gaze on—clothes and titles, the birdlime of fools.
- Such was Biddy Tibs; and, though possessed of no mean wealth, her avarice clung like birdlime to her.
- The former consists of shavings from old documents, and the latter of birdlime for new converts.
- It is the birdlime with which the devil catches many a female and male soul.