"What did I tell you? The thing clings like a flypaper," Josella observed to me.
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Flypaper
//ˈflaɪˌpeɪpɚ//
Synonyms for "flypaper" (3 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
24 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- мухоловка noun (flypaper)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 捕蠅紙 /捕蝇纸 noun (flypaper)
Czech
1 entries- mucholapka noun (flypaper)
Dutch
1 entries- vliegenstrip noun (flypaper)
Estonian
2 entries- kärbselint noun (flypaper)
- kärbsepaber noun (flypaper)
Finnish
1 entries- kärpäspaperi noun (flypaper)
French
4 entries- attrape-mouche noun (flypaper)
- papier colle-mouches noun (flypaper)
- papier tue-mouches noun (flypaper)
- papier à mouches noun (flypaper)
German
3 entries- Fliegenfänger noun (flypaper)
- Fliegenpapier noun (flypaper)
- Honigstreifen noun (flypaper)
Hungarian
1 entries- légypapír noun (flypaper)
Italian
1 entries- acchiappamosche noun (flypaper)
Japanese
1 entries- 蝿取り紙 noun (flypaper)
Navajo
1 entries- naaltsoos dijéʼígíí noun (flypaper)
Polish
2 entries- lep noun (flypaper)
- lep na muchy noun (flypaper)
Russian
1 entries- липу́чка для мух noun (flypaper)
Slovak
1 entries- mucholapka noun (flypaper)
Spanish
1 entries- papel matamoscas noun (flypaper)
Swedish
1 entries- flugpapper noun (flypaper)
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He gets flypapered by a task that should be turned over to a subordinate.
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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.
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In 'The Vertical Ladder," a hapless adolescent is flypapered fast in perpetuity, a mean little speck, on the mast of implacability.
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