Translation for "fly-paper" to spanish
Fly-paper
noun
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Translation examples
Now, with the calendar behind him and the fly paper dangling down from the ceiling above, he cleared his throat and spoke.
Ahora, con el calendario a sus espaldas y el matamoscas colgado del techo, se aclaró la garganta y dijo:
he would hand them the ketchup bottle, the mustard, the fly paper, the ink, the flour, everything with which to do the devil’s work.
les entregaría la botella de salsa de tomate, la mostaza, el papel matamoscas, la tinta, la harina, todo lo necesario para hacer una de las suyas sonada.
Even when he was hilariously delighted by anything,—as when poor Mahailey, undressing in the dark on a summer night, sat down on the sticky fly-paper,—he was not boisterous.
Ni siquiera era escandaloso cuando algo le parecía realmente hilarante (como cuando la pobre Mahailey, desvistiéndose en la oscuridad de una noche de verano, se sentó sobre el pegajoso papel matamoscas).
 He was usually in the rear of the store, reading under a dim electric bulb suspended from the ceiling by a long cord from which dangled sheets of tanglefoot fly-paper.
Solía estar en la trastienda, leyendo bajo una bombilla mortecina, colgada del techo mediante una larga cuerda de la que pendían hojas de papel matamoscas.
Pete conducted what he called a “drug store,” devoted to the sale of candy, soda water, patent medicines, fly paper, magazines, washing machines, and Ford accessories, yet Pete would have starved if he had not been postmaster also.
Pete llevaba lo que se llamaba una «botica», dedicada a la venta de caramelos, agua de soda, medicinas patentadas, papel matamoscas, revistas, lavadoras y accesorios de Ford, pero se habría muerto de hambre si no hubiese sido también el cartero.
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