From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishflypaperfly‧pa‧per /ˈflaɪˌpeɪpə $ -ər/ noun [countable, uncountable] DHpaper covered with a sticky substance that is hung up in a room in order to catch flies
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flypaper• Or maybe they were sticky, like flypaper.• Other mechanisms for trapping prey have similarly descriptive names: snap, suction, lobster pot, flypaper, loop.• It was like trying to shake flypaper.• Has public choice theory satisfactorily explained the flypaper effect? 