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Meanings of mousetrap in anglès

(American football) a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then blocked off as the runner goes through the place the lineman vacated.

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Usage of mousetrap in anglès
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His face was calm and unchanged as when setting a mousetrap.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search o...
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Not enough, sir, in all the 'ouse to bait a mousetrap.
At a Winter's Fire
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He threw the little plastic mousetrap as far from him as he could.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
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The house is as melancholy as- Ifeelas if I were in a mousetrap-
Westways: A Village Chronicle
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This is not old style, better mousetrap type competition or I'm out pricing you.
The new yorker
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Logitech caught in accessories mousetrap ZURICH As retailers stock up for Christmas, the No.
Reuters
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That there's not enough left e'en a mousetrap to bait.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10,...
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A sound like the clack of a mousetrap snapping shut.
Breeder
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More often, they speak about the gigantic 'Belorussian' mousetrap.
A writer at war: vasily grossman with the red army
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Analysis: Logitech caught in accessories mousetrap ZURICH As retailers stock up for Christmas, the No.
Reuters
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His mind immediately turned to the new mousetrap he had painstakingly laid the previous evening.
The tower, the zoo and the tortoise
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I once set a mousetrap under my apartment sink.
Pinball, 1973
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She then went to look into the mousetrap, where she found six mice, all alive.
Types of Children's Literature / A Collection of the World's Bes...
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Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!
Les Misérables
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But don't you bring any porter or mousetrap seller.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The green mousetrap smelled acrid, and the bottom of it was sticky with mouse piss.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
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