PETARD


Meaning of PETARD in English

(~s)

If someone who has planned to harm someone else is hoist with their own ~ or hoist by their own ~, their plan in fact results in harm to themselves.

The students were hoist by their own ~s, however, as Granada decided to transmit the programme anyway.

PHRASE: N inflects

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