You see, the oil facilities act as a kind of flypaper for these rebels. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-10-24] Reference
I thought this was the vaunted "flypaper" theory pushed by the war fanclub crowd. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
Horses died like so many flies on sticky flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Hill: On Killer Molasses] Reference
They stick to my mind the way flies stick to flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
Like old flypaper at the Crawford ranch, it didn't stick. From Wordnik.com. [Sowing Dragon's Teeth] Reference
FOREMAN (on camera): You could call it the flypaper theory. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2007] Reference
Josh Marshall writes the following about the flypaper theory. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference
Don't go into first-name territory; it sticks like flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
Several strands were matted to his forehead like to flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [Drop Shot]
It's just really impressive what human flypaper this woman is. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Lyon: Freedom Isn't Free -- We Still Aren't Free of Sarah Palin] Reference
These programs are like flypaper or unspeakable social disease. From Wordnik.com. [Terry Krepel: John L. Perry's Greatest Obama-Hating Hits] Reference
Then you come home and she's all over you like sticky flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [Kiss the Girls]
They are using me and my neighborhood and my family as flypaper?. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Forrest Gump Democrats- ‘Stupid is as Stupid Does’] Reference
Then we stay on them like flypaper -- no more excuses for failure. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Medlock: Notes from the Washington Caucus] Reference
Don't the anti-war leftists on this board pooh pooh the flypaper theory. From Wordnik.com. ["And when the captured British sailor admits she 'trespassed' into Iranian waters, there is fear in her eyes."] Reference
"Nothing Down" advertisements drew poor Negroes into that store like flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
Arkady stooped through the low door and pushed aside a dangling roll of flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
He touched the wall of the tubular stalk and stuck there, like a fly on flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Voyage]
Farmers control pests with everything from sticky flypaper to aphid-munching ladybugs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
She stood there, her senses shocked and overloaded, glued to him like a fly on flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella At The Ball]
During my stay it seemed to be attracting photo shoots with modelly singers like flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report: Hidden Caribbean] Reference
I bought extra flypaper and strung it up through the place so Ambrose would feel comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Women Making Love to Monsters] Reference
But he kept on and drew nearer and nearer, breathing hard and gathering flies like a flypaper. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
But that wasn't what was wrong with my mouth: They'd drugged me with nephase-flypaper for freaks. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamfall]
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