Fly-paper

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

Alternative form of flypaper..

Example Sentences

: 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.

We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper.

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.

Once 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 the central gut.

Synonyms for fly-paper

Antonyms for fly-paper

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Word Forms

• fly-papers
• fly-papering
• fly-papered

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