flypaperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

flypaper (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 flypapers)

1. A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it

同意語

• fly ribbon

派生語

• flypaper strip
• flypaper theory

動詞

flypaper (三人称単数 現在形 flypapers, 現在分詞 flypapering, 過去形および過去分詞形 flypapered)

1. To cause something to become stuck with, or as if with, flypaper.
   • 1967, Auren Uris, Keeping young in business, page 134:

     He gets flypapered by a task that should be turned over to a subordinate.

   • 1970, Cross & Cockade Journal - Volume 11, page 373:

     Cover painting that flypapered the eyes were very important to G-8 sales, and Frederick Blakeslee's mixing of fantasy with the realistic texture of machines had a hypnotic effect on impressionable coin-holders.

   • 1996, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, Life and Limb: Selected Tales of Peril, Predicament, and Dire Distress, page 20:

     In 'The Vertical Ladder," a hapless adolescent is flypapered fast in perpetuity, a mean little speck, on the mast of implacability.

   • 2010, The Malahat Review - Issues 170-173, page 20:

     Hysterical parties on her dorm floor concussed the hallways with music and produced a semi-permanent layer of trodden chips flypapered onto the carpet by spilled beer.

動詞

fly-paper (三人称単数 現在形 fly-papers, 現在分詞 fly-papering, 過去形および過去分詞形 fly-papered)

1. Alternative form of flypaper
   • 1976, Stephen Longstreet, God and Sarah Pedlock, page 356:

     Be firm, Woody, don't get fly-papered into staying on here.

   • 1983, Auren Uris, ‎John J. Tarrant, Career stages: surmounting the crises of working life, page 47:

     For people who fear getting fly-papered by a first job, the Tremayne case makes it clear that the first job can be a stepping-stone to bigger and better things.

   • 2009, Iain M. Suthers, ‎David Rissik, Plankton:

     Once Pleurobrachia senses it has 'fly-papered' a copepod onto a tentacle, it spins its body to rapidly wrap its tentacles around the body, somehow wiping the copepod across the single body opening to the central gut.