He has described it as the legislative equivalent for his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill as a box canyon, meaning the sort of naturally occurring, dead-ending geological formation used by Indians and desperados in the Wild West to trap and snare their prey.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A fatal 'box canyon' for the G.O.P.?

When the two were found dead Homer apparently of starvation, Langley from a booby trap meant to snare intruders the house contained, among many, many other things, 15, 000 medical books, 10 grand pianos and that chassis from a Model T Ford.

FORBES: They've Gotta Have It