flypaper

/ˈflaɪˌpeɪpɚ/

Etymology

From fly + paper.

noun

  1. A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it.“"What did I tell you? The thing clings like a flypaper," Josella observed to me.”

verb

  1. To cause something to become stuck with, or as if with, flypaper.“He gets flypapered by a task that should be turned over to a subordinate.”