Significados de fly-catching em inglês

The flashing alertness of a fly-catching lizard, is it not proverbial?

I was also sick of its fly-catching abilities and the cloying scent of watermelon.

Then Bunch, grave as a judge, began to repeat: 'Plate-snatching, gravy-spilling, door-slamming, blue-bottle- fly-catching, and curtsey-bobbing.

The kitchen was alive with flies, at least half of them still struggling on the long sticky fly-catching paper that hung around the room.

I found a singular moth- and fly-catching, plant in this range; it exudes a gummy substance, by which insects become attached to the leaves.

Then he went, but returned and said: "There's no water in the bucket-Motherused the last drop to boil th' punkins," and renewed the fly-catching.

"They've landed below here, and maybe they're in town while we've got our mouths open, fly-catching around an empty car."

"I am tired of scrabbling in the dust, and fly-catching is an amusement only suited to sparrows and such vulgar birds."