fly-paper

Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was … Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly-paper.

Thursday Links « Gerry Canavan 2009

It were proper champion.5 Football will at times seem like a horribly claustrophobic thing: supremely talented athletes trapped in a fly-paper of mutually annihilating excellence, where the only way to wrench a limb loose is to bend the rules with a howl, a dive, a sneaky glance, a stretcher ride and then a sudden sprint back on to Hoover up the extra oxygen.

Ten ways to satisfy your constant craving for El Clásico | Barney Ronay 2011

And how happy - relatively speaking in a time when the tumbrils are rattling - must the PM be that the fly-paper strategy of hanging Blears out the window appears to be working?

Chipmunk Hunting 2009

And how happy - relatively speaking in a time when the tumbrils are rattling - must the PM be that the fly-paper strategy of hanging Blears out the window appears to be working?

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

In an informal bumper-sticker survey at the affluent conservative crossroads in this sun-drenched make-believe bastion of gratification, the Bush-Cheney 2004 bumper stickers outnumber the McCain 2008 fly-paper by a ratio of 500 to 1.

Hank Quevedo: Notes From The Trenches: Drive-By Orange County Democrat Wars 2008

The only other major cast shift is that the Dollhouse head of security, Laurence Dominic played by Reed Diamond, who was written just for the now-defunct first ep, has stuck like fly-paper, and Reed is very much in the family for the present.

Whedon Reveals the Bumpy Road to DOLLHOUSE « TV BACON 2008

When the 13.5 trillion spirits were being blown around on the nuclear winds, the electronic traps worked like a charm and captured all the souls in the electronic, sticky fly-paper like traps.

Think Progress » Congresswoman: ‘I Welcome The Opportunity Of Having Anyone Assassinate Fidel Castro’ 2006

Some of the boys seemed to give a doubtful account of themselves; our next neighbour below in the wood is a bad fellow and very intimate with some of our boys, for whom his confounded house is like a fly-paper for flies.

Vailima Letters 2005

FDR was said to have a fly-paper mind, which was incapable of focusing on anything any more than about two minutes.

Surprise, Security, and the American Experience 2004

Somewhere, somehow, they seemed to have gathered in two other comrades: a manufacturer of fly-paper and a dentist.

Babbit 2004