mousetrap

It was a “mousetrap,” he said, for the women who were already getting blowouts daily because of the speed and environment.

ACME has a mousetrap division that is not performing very well.

“And yet here I die in a mousetrap—with no more noise about it than my own squeaking,” answered he.

The players enter and plan with Hamlet the performance of The Mousetrap.

It's probably not much more than a better mousetrap, but you want to believe it is, don't you?

It is another to say (in the face of ocular experience) that the mousetrap runs after the mouse.

"And yet here I die in a mousetrap—with no more noise about it than my own squeaking," answered he.