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"sense": "flypaper",
"word": "捕蠅紙"
},
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"roman": "bǔyíngzhǐ",
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"word": "捕蝇纸"
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"sense": "flypaper",
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},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "flypaper",
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"sense": "flypaper",
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"word": "attrape-mouche"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "flypaper",
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"word": "Fliegenpapier"
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},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "flypaper",
"word": "légypapír"
},
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "flypaper",
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"word": "acchiappamosche"
},
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "haetorigami",
"sense": "flypaper",
"word": "蝿取り紙"
},
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "flypaper",
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"word": "липу́чка для мух"
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"ref": "1967, Auren Uris, Keeping young in business, page 134",
"text": "He gets flypapered by a task that should be turned over to a subordinate.",
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"ref": "1970, Cross & Cockade Journal - Volume 11, page 373",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1996, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, Life and Limb: Selected Tales of Peril, Predicament, and Dire Distress, page 20",
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"ref": "2010, The Malahat Review - Issues 170-173, page 20",
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