be hoist hoisted by with your own petard Idiom, Proverb
hoist with one's own petard
Idiom(s): hoist with one's own petardTheme: HARM
to be harmed or disadvantaged by an action of one's own which was meant to harm someone else; to be revealed as a wrongdoer by being identified with the deed. (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.
• The vandals were hoist with their own petard when they tried to make an emergency call from the pay phone they had broken.
Hoist with your own petard
If you are hoist with your own petard, you get into trouble or caught in a trap that you had set for someone else.hoist with one's own petard|hoist|petard
adj. phr. Caught in your own trap or trick. Jack carried office gossip to the boss until he was hoisted by his own petard. (From Shakespeare; literally, blown up with one's own bomb.)petard
petardhoist with one's own petard
destroyed by the very devices with which one meant to destroy others: cf. Hamlet, III, iv
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