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单词 mousetrap
释义

mousetrap

/ˈmaʊstrap /
noun
1A trap for catching and usually killing mice, especially one with a spring bar which snaps down on to the mouse when it touches a piece of cheese or other bait attached to the mechanism.You should bait mousetraps with chocolate, not cheese....
  • One of Lee's jobs is to keep the office mousetraps constantly replenished with cheese: he has stacks of individual cubes in the fridge.
  • Then Bo called him saying, ‘Just watch out when you open the cupboard doors, because I've set some mousetraps.’
1.1 (also mousetrap cheese) [mass noun] British informal Cheese of poor quality.You would never compare mousetrap cheddar with Camembert, so why assume that all goat's cheese will taste the same - overpoweringly rank and, well, goaty?
verb [with object] North American informal
1Induce (someone) to do something by means of a trick: the editor mousetrapped her into giving him an article...
  • ‘I'm thinking you know you've mousetrapped me fair and square,’ he told her, ‘but I've a mind to hear a bit more about you before we're off to the South Weald.’
1.1Block (a user’s) efforts to exit from a website, usually one to which they have been redirected.In many cases, the consumer is sent to the other sites involuntarily, which is known in the industry as ‘mousetrapping.’

Phrases

a better mousetrap

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