flypaper
pronunciation
How to pronounce flypaper in British English:
UK [ˈflaɪpeɪpə(r)]
How to pronounce flypaper in American English:
US ['flaɪpeɪpər]
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- Noun:
- paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies
Word Origin
- flypaper (n.)
- also fly-paper, 1851 (the thing itself is said to have become commonly available in London in 1848), from fly (n.1) + paper (n.).
Example
- 1. Art and paintings captured the idols radiated by the original subject , just as flypaper might catch bugs .
- 2. You may have been frustrated with a " flypaper " issue that seems to never go away because it 's never resolved .
- 3. Paper proliferates throughout mayhew 's observation of the london slums , with books at the end of their life-cycle being re-used in many and varied ways : second-hand books are collected and sold , newspapers form material for wrapping , padding and lining , and wastepaper is turned into flypaper .
- 4. A specialized group of macrophages living inside lymph nodes-called subcapsular sinus ( scs ) macrophages-act as microscopic flypaper , filtering the lymph and collecting any particles , including viruses . ( Up to 99 % of infectious viral particles are trapped in lymph nodes in this way . )