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Garner's Modern American Usage
Thus, hoist with one's own petard literally means to blow oneself into the air with
one's own bomb. In modern journalistic sources, petard outnumbers petar by a
66-to-1 margin. So almost every writer who uses the phrase updates
Shakespeare ...
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions
hoist with one's own petard 268 the. It is noteworthy, in fact, that many earlier
writers who were well- versed in Greek, such as John Dryden and Lord Byron,
used the article the with hoi polloi even when writing the word in Greek letters.
Elizabeth Webber, Mike Feinsilber, 1999
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Advanced Learner's Dictionary
origin unknown. petite (p3'ti:t)ad/ (of a woman) small and hoist with one's own
petard To end up the victim of one's own schemes or devices is to be hoisted with
one's own petard. Petard was originally the name of a large container for ...
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Who Chose the Gospels?: Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy
Celsus calls it 'falling on your own swords', Shakespeare, being 'hoist with one's
own petard'. Celsus saw that the most effective way to destroy Christianity would
be to attack it from its own claimed source of truth, and indeed, Origen confirms ...
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Freedom and Fulfillment: Philosophical Essays
To be hoist with one's own petard, through analogical extension, came to mean "
injured by one's own devices against others," as when the explosive goes off
prematurely and a kind of backfire blows the soldier away, or when one is refuted
by ...
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Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... a Hobson's choice in the matter of India's Partition Hodge-podge: Confused or
disorderly mixture of different types of things * The old towns in India have a
hodge-podge building structures Hoist with one's own petard: Be caught in one's
own ...
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IF I CAN YOU CAN LEARN ENGLISH TOO!
PETARD Hoist with one's own petard: caught in one's own trap. The enemies
were hoist with their own petard. PICK Pick of the basket: The best of anything.
The radiogram I bought yesterday was undoubtedly the pick of the basket. Pick
and ...
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Exploring Environmental Change Using an Integrative Method
This is very much a case of being hoist with one's own petard whereby the
research itself was subject to the uncertainties of what was being investigated,
and in order to respond to these changes, had to be flexible and adaptive. It is
interesting ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
petard be hoist with one's own petard to be the victim of, or ruined by, one's own
trick which one intended to ruin or harm someone eke: The councillor who
introduced parking restrictions to the town of Southwood was hoist with his own
petard ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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Chambers concise dictionary
Also called boules. [1950s: French] petard /pe'tcnd/ >n,hist a small bomb for
blasting a hole in a wall, door, etc. [16c: from French petard a banger or
firecracker, from peter to break wind, from Latin pedere] ♢ hoist with one's own
petard blown ...
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It is time now to plan for life after Longannet
The saying "hoist with one's own petard" springs to mind. Dr GM Lindsay,. Scientific Alliance Scotland,. 7-9 North St David Street, Edinburgh. «Herald Scotland, Мар 15»
SNP fuelled the crisis facing Longannet
The saying “hoist with one's own petard” springs readily to mind. (Dr) GM Lindsay. Scientific Alliance Scotland. North St David Street. Edinburgh. «Scotsman, Фев 15»
