Fly-paper
"Fly-paper" in a Sentence (7 examples)
The supply of game for London is going steadily up. Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life.
: 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.
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