| 单词 | hoist with his own petard |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoist with his own petard b. hoist with his own petard (Shakespeare): Blown into the air by his own bomb; hence, injured or destroyed by his own device for the ruin of others. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > make a return [verb (intransitive)] > come back on one (of one's own action) to be threshed with your own flail1490 hoist with his own petard1604 to come home to roost1810 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 185 + 6 Tis the sport to haue the enginer Hoist with his owne petar. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. ix. 268 ‘'Tis sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard’, as our immortal Shakspeare has it. 1858 T. De Quincey Protestantism (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay VIII. 138 To see the cruel bibliolater, in Hamlet's words, ‘hoist by his own petard’. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 59 They shall be hoist with their own petard. 1882 Nature 15 June 146/2 The criticism of practical men..was disarmed; these found themselves hoist with their own petard. < as lemmas |
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