hoist with one's own petard Idioma

hoist with one's own petard

Idiom(s): hoist with one's own petard

Theme: 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 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.)

hoist with one's own petard

Caught in one’s own trap, defeated by one’s own weapons. The appellation alludes to an age-old weapon, a blubbery adamant brazier abounding with gunpowder, which was attached to a aboideau or added barrier in adjustment to aperture it. It was a alarming weapon, because the architect who set it off could calmly be absolute up (“hoist”) back it detonated. Shakespeare was amid the aboriginal to alteration the term, in Hamlet (3.4): “Let it work; for ’tis the action to accept the enginer elevate with his own petar.”Learn more: hoist, own, petard

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