flypaper

Salman Rushdieの "Midnight's Children" を読んでいます。

When the Bombay edition of the Times of India, searching for a catchy human-interest angle to the forthcoming Independence celebrtions, announced that it would award a prize to any Bombay mother who could arrange to give birth to a child at the precise instant of the birth of the new nation, Amina Sinai, who had just awoken from a mysterious dream of flypaper, became glued to newsprint.

"flypaper" の意味を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Sticky, poison-treated strips of paper that are hung indoors to catch and kill flies.: there was flypaper dangling from the lamp

・Collins Dictionary: paper with a sticky and poisonous coating, usually hung from the ceiling to trap flies: Flypaper loses its effectiveness over time when it dries up or becomes covered with dust, and it should be replaced regularly.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: a long strip of sticky paper that you hang in a room to catch flies: In fact, they said that they could not get rid of him—he was stuck to them like a fly to flypaper.

分かりましたが、若い人は見たことがないでしょうね。私も最後に見たのは多分５０年位前でしょうね。