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This is not the only type of "mousetrap", however. There are many traps which catch the mouse alive whereupon it can be released into the wild.
Strychnine-soaked grain pellets were a common substitute for mousetraps for some time; however, they are rarely used due to the toxicity of the chemical.The device is used proverbially in the statement "If you build a better mousetrap, someone will build a better mouse," which means that no matter how good one is at stopping events such as robberies, cracking or other such conduct (or catching those who engage in it), someone is bound to find a way around it.
Mousetraps are also common in physical hurt comedy, and in this case are used when people sit on them or get fingers caught in them.
The Mouse-trap is the fictional "play within a play" in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. "Hamlet: The play's the thing/Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
The Mousetrap is the title of a play by Agatha ChristieDame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE ( September 15, 1890 January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott . Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer and all-time best selling, which has run continuously in LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri's West EndThe West End is a loosely defined area of central London. It is bounded on the west by Marble Arch, Park Lane, St James's Park and on the east by Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden and Bloomsbury. The area includes Oxford Street, Bond Street and Regent Stre for decades.
Mouse TrapMouse Trap is a board game published by Milton Bradley for two or more players. Players travel as mice from one end of the board to the other, moving in a turn based manner guided by a six sided die, supplied with the game. Upon landing on a square, they is also a board gameA board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. Simple board games are often seen as ideal "family entertainment" as they can provide entertainment for all ages. Some board games, such as in which players build a complicated mousetrap to beat their opponents.
Mouse Trap is also a video gamescreenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game BoyA video game is a game played using an electronic device with a visual display. Overview Often "video game" is taken in a narrow sense to mean those games played on consoles for television and similar handheld in which a mouse avoids cats in a maze.