flypaper Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈflaɪˌpeɪ.pər]
  • Us [ ˈflaɪˌpeɪ.pɚ]

Meaning of flypaper In English

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Examples of flypaper

  • Had we better take some flypaper? 

  • President Cleveland—And are you using that flypaper according to directions? 

  • In both years, the sticky flypaper was replaced every two days.

  • In fact, they said that they could not get rid of him—he was stuck to them like a fly to flypaper.

  • One puts on some attractive sticky stuff and hopes the fly will get on to the flypaper and be stuck.

  • The lady who bought the flypapers said she was making cosmetics.

  • Concentrations could be blasted out of existence, and cities picked off the surface of the earth like dead flies off a flypaper, such is the devastating effect.

  • It is expected that the supply of flypapers during the coming summer will not be less than the supply last year, and that this should be adequate.

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