flypaper
/flahy-pey-per/US // ˈflaɪˌpeɪ pər //UK // (ˈflaɪˌpeɪpə) //
苍蝇纸,蝇蛆纸,飞纸,苍蝇皮纸
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : paper designed to destroy flies by catching them on its sticky surface or poisoning them on contact.
Examples
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.
He prowls around and challenges man until he comes to the flypaper; he then slinks away.
President Cleveland—And are you using that flypaper according to directions?
But he kept on and drew nearer and nearer, breathing hard and gathering flies like a flypaper.
The agricultural model for instance, which was practicable, proved a kind of flypaper for these busybodies.
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