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/ˈflaɪˌpeɪpɚ/ · 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.
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.
In 'The Vertical Ladder," a hapless adolescent is flypapered fast in perpetuity, a mean little speck, on the mast of implacability.
Hysterical parties on her dorm floor concussed the hallways with music and produced a semi-permanent layer of trodden chips flypapered onto the carpet by spilled beer.
Use fly paper when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fly paper means A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it..
Common synonyms include fly ribbon.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"What did I tell you? The thing clings like a flypaper," Josella observed to me.
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