1 It was like trying to shake flypaper.

2 Or maybe they were sticky, like flypaper.

3 Has public choice theory satisfactorily explained the flypaper effect?

4 She suspects that the flypaper of an unfocused mind may trap new ideas and unexpected associations more effectively than methodical reasoning.

5 Other mechanisms for trapping prey have similarly descriptive names: snap, suction, lobster pot, flypaper, loop.

6 But earwax seems to have the very humble role of being no more than biological flypaper, serving to prevent dust and insects entering the ear.

7 It'stuck firmly in his consciousness like a piece of sticky flypaper.

8 Similarly, a digital clock is powered with the same type of microbial fuel cell, collecting its prey with flypaper.

9 "On Pearl Harbor Day 2010, the United States (and much of the rest of the world) was attacked by China, " education expert Chester E. Finn Jr. wrote on the blog Flypaper.