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flypaper Noun paper with a sticky and poisonous coating, hung up to trap flies
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The researchers also hung out strips of flypaper to see whether the females were staying in areas providing more food. At a trial in the summer of 2000 the couple called such notables as Ralph Nader and Walter Cronkite, who didn't seem to know much about the specifics of the dispute but served as effective flypaper in attracting the nation's left-wing, anti-corporate activists and media outlets. The question of effects can easily become an example of conceptual flypaper that traps the unwary student seeking logical purity in his analysis. |
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