After all these years I finally looked up the word petard, having zero clue what it means
I wonder what percentage of people know it's a small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder, used to blast down a door or to make a hole in a wall
Probably even fewer know how the hell you can be "hoist" by such a thing, as Shakespeare wrote, or why he chose to use that word in the first place...maybe he just meant figuratively blown upward off the floor by the blast of their own words...(or farts? :)
My father described his friend being lifted from a cesspool they were digging in clay. His friend jumped in on top of the plywood used to reduce the scatter when the stick of dynamite "failed". Timing was perfect ,as he landed he was launch from the hole.
"Lifted on his own petard"
He wouldn't tug on their short hairs with the material that they developed to keep the gang / each other in line ...or would he ?
Hoisted on their own petards seems fitting !
Please let us all watch the pole raising President Trump🍿
After all these years I finally looked up the word petard, having zero clue what it means
I wonder what percentage of people know it's a small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder, used to blast down a door or to make a hole in a wall
Probably even fewer know how the hell you can be "hoist" by such a thing, as Shakespeare wrote, or why he chose to use that word in the first place...maybe he just meant figuratively blown upward off the floor by the blast of their own words...(or farts? :)
My father described his friend being lifted from a cesspool they were digging in clay. His friend jumped in on top of the plywood used to reduce the scatter when the stick of dynamite "failed". Timing was perfect ,as he landed he was launch from the hole. "Lifted on his own petard"
God laughs while men plan.
Awesome - What are the odds of immediately getting a story about someone literally being hoist by their own petard
Mysterious Ways.