fly-paper
Collocations
3VERB + FLY-PAPER
hanging
FLY-PAPER + NOUN
nothing
PREP.
up
Definitions
noun
Alternative form of flypaper.
: Mrs. Maybrick purchased these fly-papers from two chemists' shops, where she was well known.
Fly-paper has accomplished nothing. The percentage of flies that get hitched to it is but one in the hundred, and the other ninety-nine assemble as at a circus and enjoy the.performance.
verb
Alternative form of flypaper.
Be firm, Woody, don't get fly-papered into staying on here.
For people who fear getting fly-papered by a first job, the Tremayne case makes it clear that the first job can be a stepping-stone to bigger and better things.
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6: Mrs. Maybrick purchased these fly-papers from two chemists' shops, where she was well known.
WiktionaryFly-paper has accomplished nothing. The percentage of flies that get hitched to it is but one in the hundred, and the other ninety-nine assemble as at a circus and enjoy the.performance.
WiktionaryWe get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper.
WiktionaryBe firm, Woody, don't get fly-papered into staying on here.
WiktionaryFor people who fear getting fly-papered by a first job, the Tremayne case makes it clear that the first job can be a stepping-stone to bigger and better things.
WiktionaryOnce Pleurobrachia senses it has 'fly-papered' a copepod onto a tentacle, it spins its body to rapidly wrap its tentacles around the body, somehow wiping the copepod across the single body opening to
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