英语词汇“be hoist with (or by) one's own petard”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

be hoist with (or by) one's own petard

Have one’s plans to cause trouble for others backfire on one.Charges of working against the interests of your own country are very slippery things, and may get the one making the charges hoisted by his own petard someday....

But, with any luck, he may soon be hoisted by his own petard.
He's been at if for years and he finally got hoisted by his own petard.

From Shakespeare's Hamlet (iii. iv. 207); hoist is in the sense 'lifted and removed', past participle of dialect hoise (see hoist)

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单词	be hoist with (or by) one's own petard
释义	be hoist with (or by) one's own petard Have one’s plans to cause trouble for others backfire on one.Charges of working against the interests of your own country are very slippery things, and may get the one making the charges hoisted by his own petard someday.... But, with any luck, he may soon be hoisted by his own petard. He's been at if for years and he finally got hoisted by his own petard. From Shakespeare's Hamlet (iii. iv. 207); hoist is in the sense 'lifted and removed', past participle of dialect hoise (see hoist) See parent entry: petard
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