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Witness insect awaiting swatter? (3,2,3,4)

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I believe the answer is:

fly on the wall

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'awaiting swatter?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'witness insect' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'insect' could be 'fly' (fly is a kind of insect) and 'fly' is present in the answer.
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(Other definitions for fly on the wall that I've seen before include "Unobserved observer" , "inconspicuous observer?" , "Unobtrusive documentary" , "Unseen observer" , "for secret observation?" .)

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