mousetraps in English

noun
1
a trap for catching and usually killing mice, especially one with a spring bar that snaps down onto the mouse when it touches a piece of cheese or other bait attached to the mechanism.
You should bait mousetraps with chocolate, not cheese.
verb
1
induce (someone) to do something by means of a trick.
the editor mousetrapped her into giving him an article

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1. Mousetraps are traditionally baited with cheese.

2. Coming all the way from America to Switzerland to sell mousetraps.

3. He sold everything, it appeared, from postage stamps and plimsolls to mousetraps and ham.

4. Antonyms for security: nailbiting, Maydays, in Conclusivenesses, mis fortune, mousetraps, pro-spects, quicksands, injury, herculean tasks, dis-quiets, mis giving, the

5. Found in Clothespins, spring clamps, and mousetraps, torsion springs wrap around a shaft or rod to maintain pressure on objects as they rotate.