mouse-trap

Ogre is like one of those whacky wonderful rube-goldberg mouse-trap contraptions we used to look at.

New Ogres on the Horizon? « Third Point of Singularity 2010

Thus, the reader learns that Robert Fulton Tanner is a hardware store owner, who fancies himself an inventor, trying to invent the proverbial "better mouse-trap."

Archive 2009-12-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Creep little mouse #1 died in a mouse-trap related incident that caused a philosophical debate in our household.

Puke, More Puke and No Neonatal Neuroassessment Update Zombie Mom 2008

So, last night, I went back to the supermarket and got the cheap old-fashioned kind of mouse-trap that takes muscles to set - the Victor Mouse Trap!

Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008

So, last night, I went back to the supermarket and got the cheap old-fashioned kind of mouse-trap that takes muscles to set - the Victor Mouse Trap!

Friday Night Miscellany Jan 2008

Those who put it to this quaint use of mouse-trap had already had some sport, but surely never was a mouse crushed before under so much learning.

Archive 2008-10-01 Paul 2008

They did not come up with a better mouse-trap to actually educate the kids.

Bob Gibson Savages Scottie Griffin at cvillenews.com 2005

A "spring-board" for Gordon - more like a mouse-trap.

Our New Friends in the North 2007

If I build a better mousetrap, under ideal circumstances, mouse-trap connoisseurs will flock to me, giving me money and hence encouraging me to build more of the same.

In Defense of a Progressive Tax System 2006

If I build a better mousetrap, under ideal circumstances, mouse-trap connoisseurs will flock to me, giving me money and hence encouraging me to build more of the same.

In Defense of Corporate Taxes 2006