be hoist by (one's) own petard Idioma

hoist with one's own petard

Idiom(s): hoist with one's own petard

Theme: HARM

to be harmed or disadvantaged by an action of one's own which was meant to harm someone else; to be revealed as a wrongdoer by being identified with the deed. (From a line in Shakespeare's Hamlet.)
• She intended to murder her brother but was hoist with her own petard when she ate the poisoned food intended for him.
• The vandals were hoist with their own petard when they tried to make an emergency call from the pay phone they had broken.

Hoist with your own petard

If you are hoist with your own petard, you get into trouble or caught in a trap that you had set for someone else.

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adj. phr. Caught in your own trap or trick. Jack carried office gossip to the boss until he was hoisted by his own petard. (From Shakespeare; literally, blown up with one's own bomb.)

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hoist with one's own petard
destroyed by the very devices with which one meant to destroy others: cf. Hamlet, III, iv

be elevate by (one's) own petard

To be injured, ruined, or defeated by one's own action, device, or artifice that was advised to abuse another; to accept collapsed victim to one's own allurement or schemes. ("Hoist" in this instance is the accomplished participle of the ancient anatomy of the verb "hoise.") I approved to get my bang-up accursed by burying drugs on him, but I was elevate by my own petard back the badge bent me with them beforehand.Learn more: by, hoist, own, petard

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