mousetrap
捕鼠器,鼠笼
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Definitions
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- : a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- : a device, machine, or the like whose structure or function suggests a trap for mice.
- : a device, system, or stratagem for detecting and catching someone in an unauthorized or illegal act.
- : Football. trap.
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mouse·trapped, mouse·trap·ping.
- : Informal. to trap or snare: traffic cops mousetrapping drunken drivers.to manipulate by devious or clever means; trick or outwit: to mousetrap the witness into a contradiction.
- : Football. trap.
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Examples
Meanwhile, 3D imagery across various screens is sharp, and superfans will appreciate experiencing new material from the Ratatouille world, as Linguini ushers you into a hidey hole or Skinner’s finger gets caught in a mousetrap.
Even in this new world, it is not illegal to become hugely successful by building the proverbial better mousetrap.
It was a “mousetrap,” he said, for the women who were already getting blowouts daily because of the speed and environment.
ACME has a mousetrap division that is not performing very well.
“And yet here I die in a mousetrap—with no more noise about it than my own squeaking,” answered he.
The players enter and plan with Hamlet the performance of The Mousetrap.
It's probably not much more than a better mousetrap, but you want to believe it is, don't you?
It is another to say (in the face of ocular experience) that the mousetrap runs after the mouse.
"And yet here I die in a mousetrap—with no more noise about it than my own squeaking," answered he.