flypaper
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3ADJ.
observed
VERB + FLYPAPER
clings, like
FLYPAPER + NOUN
josella
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noun
A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it.
"What did I tell you? The thing clings like a flypaper," Josella observed to me.
verb
To cause something to become stuck with, or as if with, flypaper.
He gets flypapered by a task that should be turned over to a subordinate.
Cover painting that flypapered the eyes were very important to G-8 sales, and Frederick Blakeslee's mixing of fantasy with the realistic texture of machines had a hypnotic effect on impressionable coin-holders.
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4"What did I tell you? The thing clings like a flypaper," Josella observed to me.
WiktionaryHe gets flypapered by a task that should be turned over to a subordinate.
WiktionaryCover painting that flypapered the eyes were very important to G-8 sales, and Frederick Blakeslee's mixing of fantasy with the realistic texture of machines had a hypnotic effect on impressionable coi
WiktionaryIn 'The Vertical Ladder," a hapless adolescent is flypapered fast in perpetuity, a mean little speck, on the mast of implacability.
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