noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
hoist
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He discovered that he was being hoist with his own petard .
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As elsewhere, a too zealous objector is hoist by his own petard .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be hoist with/by your own petard
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As elsewhere, a too zealous objector is hoist by his own petard .
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He discovered that he was being hoist with his own petard .
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One of the earliest explosive devices was the petard , which was a mine used to breach castle walls or gates.
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Section 28 hoisted Labour on the petard of its own contradictions.
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The plan, evidently, is to hoist Pretoria with its own petard .
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The school debate hoisted conservatives on their own petard .