mantraps

The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice".

Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis 2011

To change tack and embrace the protection of possession above creativity would take the Irish into the mantraps of the Aviva Premiership.

Ireland's story of survival fuels Leinster's Heineken Cup final push | Eddie Butler 2011

Columbia Journalism Review Goes Long On Daily Caller - Our favorite part: "Journolisters will chuckle -- or recoil -- to hear he almost named his site Punji Stick, after the sharpened bamboo spears the Viet Cong deployed in mantraps."

HUFFPOST HILL - Moody's Might Downgrade U.S., Hobo Clown Futures Skyrocket Eliot Nelson 2011

I was out of beer (sorry Bangar), nestlé took away all our polly waffles, and Mayhem scoffed the rest of the snakes, so I had to put something in the mantraps.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Open for business. The new renovated Ladies Lounge. 2009

However, the same way that a hotel can afford to provide better security (video surveillance, guard patrols, key-carded elevators) than you can at your house, cloud providers can offer both better physical security (biometric authentication, physical premises security, mantraps) and process certifications (SAS 70 Type II, SysTrust) than many enterprise data centers — and certainly better than a hodgepodge of corporate server rooms.

Another Half-Dozen Half-Truths of the Cloud 2009

You could dig deep, perfectly hidden mantraps, and you made a good living selling the produce that he had lovingly cultivated, out of the potting shed window.

A letter to … my foster brother 2011

A very professional job but for the alarms he had set, the miniature gins and mantraps.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

Apparantly mantraps are only mantraps if you say they are, otherwise they are empty composting pits.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Probably lucky I couldn’t find my boots. 2010

The Major decided, after some consideration, that it meant mantraps; that it meant plotting and snaring; that Miss Tox was digging pitfalls.

Dombey and Son 2007

Somehow I begin to wonder whether getting properly done science through all of the firey hoops, mantraps and giant rolling balls of peer-reviewed scientific journalism is worth the hassle.

ACS Code of Conduct « Climate Audit 2006