"fly-paper" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "flypaper"
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1896, The Maybrick Case, a Statement of the Case as a Whole",
          "text": "Mrs. Maybrick purchased these fly-papers from two chemists' shops, where she was well known.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Mark Twain, “The Supremacy of the House Fly”, in Microfilm Edition of Mark Tawin's Literary Manuscripts Available in the Mark Twain Pages, The Bancroft Library, Univeristy of California, Berkeley",
          "text": "Fly-paper has accomplished nothing. The percentage of flies that get hitched to it is but one in the hundred, and the other ninety-nine assemble as at a circus and enjoy the.performance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl: Three Tales of Magic and Mischief, page 306",
          "text": "We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper.",
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        "Alternative form of flypaper"
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      "form": "fly-papers",
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    },
    {
      "form": "fly-papering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fly-papered",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "fly-papered",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Stephen Longstreet, God and Sarah Pedlock, page 356",
          "text": "Be firm, Woody, don't get fly-papered into staying on here.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Auren Uris, John J. Tarrant, Career stages: surmounting the crises of working life, page 47",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Iain M. Suthers, David Rissik, Plankton",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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  "word": "fly-paper"
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          "text": "Mrs. Maybrick purchased these fly-papers from two chemists' shops, where she was well known.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Mark Twain, “The Supremacy of the House Fly”, in Microfilm Edition of Mark Tawin's Literary Manuscripts Available in the Mark Twain Pages, The Bancroft Library, Univeristy of California, Berkeley",
          "text": "Fly-paper has accomplished nothing. The percentage of flies that get hitched to it is but one in the hundred, and the other ninety-nine assemble as at a circus and enjoy the.performance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl: Three Tales of Magic and Mischief, page 306",
          "text": "We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of flypaper"
      ],
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          "ref": "1976, Stephen Longstreet, God and Sarah Pedlock, page 356",
          "text": "Be firm, Woody, don't get fly-papered into staying on here.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Auren Uris, John J. Tarrant, Career stages: surmounting the crises of working life, page 47",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Iain M. Suthers, David Rissik, Plankton",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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