mousetrap

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• After phonecalls to many people, we discover one house which has a spare mousetrap.
• They said nothing else, and Regan read the instructions on the back of the mousetrap boxes. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
• Another discussion I had with a friend of mine a long time ago I made the apperception, I said, "blacks have never been mousetrapped. Oral History Interview with Hylan Lewis, January 13, 1991. Interview A-0361. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• Be doubly careful. I'm sure all manner of stupid mousetrap await our toes in the dark.
• Anyone who wants to make a better mousetrap has to invent around existing mousetrap patents.
• Then there is the mousetrapping of the Clintons per se, which I laid out last November: President Clinton has agreed to submit his future endeavours to strict ethics reviews by the White House counsel and the State Department's ethics office. William Bradley: Hillary's Back! (Or Not)
• Advertisements, that wrought a revolution in that department of literature, my uncle was brought to realise not only the lost history, but also the enormous field for invention and enterprise that lurked among the little articles, the dustpans and mincers, the mousetraps and carpet-sweepers that fringe the shops of the oilman and domestic ironmonger. Tono Bungay
• Thus, when a prison van turns to the left in this yard, it has brought prisoners to be examined to the "mousetrap"; when it turns to the right, it conveys prisoners committed for trial, to the Conciergerie. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
• The spindle holder is called a mousetrap, because it's spring-loaded. September 2007