Hoist with your own petard - means injured by the device you intended to use injure others
The reference can be found in Hamlet (Act 3, scene 4)There's letters seal'd, and my two schoolfellows,Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd-They bear the mandate, they must sweep my wayAnd marshal me to knavery. Let it work;For 'tis the sport to have the enginerHoist with his own petard, an't shall go hardBut I will delve one yard below their minesAnd blow them at the moon.Shakespeare didn't invent the term though.
Hoisted means threw.Definitions of hoist on the Web: * raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" * move from one place to another by lifting; "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table" * raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail" * lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objectswordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Lift, elevate, draw up, hoist, raise
1. The cheerleader hoisted her teamate in the air. 2. Can you hoist me over the fence? 3. "Give me a leg!" " What?" " Hoist me up!" i want 2 know. that kool dude ;) --- modernwarfare
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A petard is a small bomb used to breach gates and walls in early modern warfare. It is typically attached to the target and then detonated to create an opening for an attack. The phrase "hoist with his own petard" refers to being harmed by one's own actions or devices.
"hoist with one's own petard"
The cast of Hoist on His Own Petard - 1912 includes: Kathleen Butler as At Dancing Academy Edward Dillon as At Dancing Academy Charles Murray as Henrico Gus Pixley as At Dancing Academy
The George Carlin Show - 1994 George Gets Hoist by His Own Petard 2-4 was released on: USA: 6 November 1994
The phrase "hoist by one's own petard" means to be harmed or caught in one's own trap or scheme. The term "petard" refers to a small bomb used to breach walls in warfare, so being "hoist by one's own petard" signifies that someone's own actions or plans have backfired on them.
The petard was the first 'shaped' explosive charge, used by a Mining Engineer (colloquially 'sapper') to precisely direct a blast onto a single point, like a lock or door hinge, when mining toward a defended structure during a siege. It was shaped like a squat cone and because of this shape, concentrated a small charge so well that the sound of the blast rarely carried through the door to the defender. This enabled the sapper to use such a small charge that he could remain quite close to the spot. So close, in fact, that it was conceivable that a sapper might be 'hoist by his own petard' if he was a bit of a show-off. First printed reference was in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' III.iv.207 "For tis the sport to haue the enginer Hoist with his owne petar"
There is an irony that he is killed with his own poison (hoist with his own petard, one might say). Also, since Laertes knows he's going to die, he has an incentive to spill the beans on Claudius: "The king's to blame!"
The reference can be found in Hamlet (Act 3, scene 4)There's letters seal'd, and my two schoolfellows,Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd-They bear the mandate, they must sweep my wayAnd marshal me to knavery. Let it work;For 'tis the sport to have the enginerHoist with his own petard, an't shall go hardBut I will delve one yard below their minesAnd blow them at the moon.Shakespeare didn't invent the term though.
Paul Petard was born in 1912.
Paul Petard died in 1980.
Hamlet stabbed him with the poisoned sword which Laertes had poisoned to kill Hamlet. He was, in Hamlet's phrase, "hoist with his own petard."
Michel Petard has written: 'de Fontenoy A Waterloo'