hoist by one's own petard
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[edit] Etymology
From the play Hamlet (III.iv.207) by Shakespeare:
- For tis the sport to haue the enginer / Hoist with his owne petar.
[edit] Adjective
- (idiomatic) to be hurt, or destroyed by one's own plot or device, of one's own doing which one intended for another; to be "blown up by one's own bomb"
- He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard.
[edit] Usage notes
- In the US, the forms in "hoisted" are about as common as the forms in "hoist", in contrast to other usage of the past and past participle in which "hoisted" is fifteen times more common.
[edit] Translations
to be hurt or destroyed by one's own plot or device
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