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It stuck to him like flypaper all through the 1992 campaign.
"There's too much legal flypaper tied up with most of them."
Then the flypaper hanger moved on to the east, following the wall.
His legs moved slowly, as if he were crawling across flypaper.
In some places, pools of oil are like flypaper to the butterflies.
The man's hands were flypaper fastened to the small bones.
Inside my head thoughts stuck together like flies on flypaper.
On some of them the bikini effect could catch male eyes like flypaper.
Sometimes she thought it was more like the flies who'd conquered the flypaper.
Others gain some control by hanging strips of flypaper near the plants.
He's always here with women around him like he's dressed in flypaper.
Admittedly, perhaps such a trap is no better than a few square feet of flypaper.
He invented a new form for reports on the use of flypaper and sent it to command.
Then you come home and she's all over you like sticky flypaper.
Headbangers never see their hair again when it sticks to the floor like flypaper.
They were stuck to the wall - like flies on a flypaper.'
However, such arguments are not the only ones made to explain the 'flypaper effect'.
An empty strand of flypaper twisted in what little air current there was over the sink.
They got terribly stuck-up with flypaper, but the flies let them be.
They use poor people as flypaper to attract members."
The faster the closing, less reliant on the flypaper model the plant would be.
She tried to pull back, but his skin was as sticky as flypaper.
Some have flypaper doormats that remove the dust from your shoes.
But mostly the actors are stuck to the script like insects on flypaper.
The basic principles are little different from those for catching flies on strips of flypaper.