flypaper
noun
- fly-killing device
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈflaɪˌpeɪpɚ/
noun
Etymology: From fly + paper.
- 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.”
verb
Etymology: From fly + paper.
- To cause something to become stuck with, or as if with, flypaper.
“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.”