The purpose of this mucus is to catch and hold, just as flypaper catches flies, all specks of dust, lint, or germs that may be floating in the air we breathe, and to keep them from going on into the lungs.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
President Cleveland-And are you using that flypaper according to directions?
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
Well, say, a kitten with four feet stuck in the flypaper didn't have anything on me.
"Torchy, Private Sec."
Sewell Ford