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Hoisted by one's own petard

I believe that a petard is an explosive grenade of sorts. The idea is that you are hoist (blown into the air) by your own petard (grenade) detonating accidentally.

Hurt Locker ... meet Shakespeare.





thenewgreen  ·  3675 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting phrase, I've never heard of it before. Is it one that you find is used commonly where you are at?

_refugee_  ·  3673 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's from Shakespeare actually - I read this article a long time ago which is why I bring it up now, not to be a smartass. psulli you are correct. To me, it has a Monty Python sort of humor about it.