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- n paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies
- She saw them coming, instantly drained a stiff tumbler of her potent essence of flypaper and died.
- Bacon's is flypaper, and innumerable claims stick to it: over the past 40 years it has attracted extremes of praise and calumniation.
- Japanese approved, last week, certain pious rites ordered and paid for at Kyoto by one Yozo Fuyubayashi, a rich seller of flypaper, a gentleman, and a devout believer in .