There are novels that are contraptions, configured like cages, traps, or flypaper, to catch things and hold them.

NEWYORKER: Canada Dry

Excrement from millions of chickens found its way into waterways and attracted so many flies that nearby homeowners hung flypaper in their rooms.

FORBES: Regulation

As a rock off the top left-hand corner of Europe, we are big winners from this rule, which turns places like Italy, Greece, Malta or Poland into flypaper for migrants.

ECONOMIST: European politics

"Since the camera was the coldest part of the spacecraft shortly after launch, it would tend to act almost like flypaper, " said mission engineers in a September 6 status report.

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Stuck like a fly in flypaper?

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