mousetrap

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“They say they’re building a better mousetrap to handle more business without laying on additional cost, but you can’t really test that until the business comes,” Seidl said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

But they did have a crucial insight into how to build a better mousetrap.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2023

"Wagner troops climbed into Bakhmut like rats into a mousetrap," Oleksander Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine's ground forces, told troops at the Bakhmut front this week.

From Reuters • May 20, 2023

He had supposedly built a better mousetrap, and the world had indeed beaten a path to his door.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022

Genie went to give him five, but Grandpop caught his hand, clamped down on it like a mousetrap on a mouse, and shook it hard and tight.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds