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Flypaper   /flˈaɪpˌeɪpər/   Listen
Flypaper

noun
1.
Paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies.





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"Flypaper" Quotes from Famous Books



... return again (ten minutes later) and rescind. Others came with a vast show of hurry and despatch, but I observed it to be principally show. The agricultural model for instance, which was practicable, proved a kind of flypaper for these busybodies. I have seen them blankly turn the crank of it for five minutes at a time, simulating (to nobody's deception) business interest: "Good thing this, Pinkerton? Sell much of it? Ha! Couldn't use it, I suppose, ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne


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