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The phrase 'hoist with one's own petar[d]' is often cited as 'hoist by one's own petar[d]'. The two forms mean the same, although the former is strictly a more accurate version of the original source. ... Phrases, Sayings and Idioms Home > Phrase Dictionary - Meanings and Origins > Hoist with your own petard...
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hoist with one's own petard ... (idiomatic) to be hurt, or destroyed by one's own plot or device, of one's own doing which one intended for another; to be "blown up by one's own bomb" ... He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard.
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hoist with one's own petard ... He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard. ... (Redirected from hoist with one's own petard)
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hoist with one's own petard ... to be harmed or disadvantaged by an action of one's own which was meant to harm someone else. (From a line in Shakespeare's Hamlet.) She intended to murder her brother but was hoist with her own petard when she ate the poisoned food intended for him.
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Hoist with his own petar, an't shall go hard. But I will delve one yard below ... According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word petard came into ...
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Jul 16, 2006 ... Hoist With One's Own Petard. As the world waits for events to answer the question: will the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalate ...
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So what do you think the idiom "be hoist with one's own petard" means? It means creating problems for yourself. Have you ever had a plan backfire on you? You may have planned to create a problem for someone, but something goes wrong and you end up creating problems for yourself.
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What's a petard, as in "hoist by his own ..."? [The Straight Dope, Chicago Reader]; hoist by one's own petard [The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy...
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Hoist with ones own petard - Definition of Hoist with ones own petard at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Hoist with ones own petard. Look it up now! ... Surviving in phrase hoist with one's own petard (or some variant) "blown up with one's own bomb," which is ult.
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