A petard is a small explosive used to breach castle walls. From Wordnik.com. ["Every time you post, recite the following to yourself as though it were a mantra: 'I am cutting rope with which to hang myself....'"] Reference
Ha! and all this time I though a petard was a pointy stick. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
As I heard it, they made an explosive called a petard…. you see my meaning. From Wordnik.com. [I’m Awake « Whatever] Reference
Furthermore, as one would guess, hanging a petard was a hazardous occupation; it went out of style in the early 1700's. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Your petard is waiting. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Cheney takes a nap.] Reference
I always thought, wrongly, that the "petard" was a weapon similar to a pike. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
A "petard" was an explosive charge, placed by hand, and detonated with a timed fuze. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
For it is by the very same criteria as 'petard' which Gordon Brown deployed in polemic against. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
They couldn't possibly have expected our petard. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
So the man is sort of like hoisted on his own petard. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Spin Room: Is It Time for Al Gore to Concede the Election? - November 26, 2000] Reference
"Hoist with my own petard," said the Phoenix bitterly. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
By your last post you hang yourself on your own petard. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
She is looking on now to see us hoist by our own petard. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
CAFFERTY: Microsoft sort of hoisted on their own petard. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2004] Reference
"I'll show you a petard," she said, uncrossing her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Hot And Bothered]
I thought that Merkin's essay hoisted us on our own petard. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Why We Need a "Practical Psychoanalysis"] Reference
So they're kind of being hoisted on their own petard a little bit. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2006] Reference
The petard works on chemical power, or at least I hope it works. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
And this petard is a big reason why I left organized psychoanalysis. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Why We Need a "Practical Psychoanalysis"] Reference
Hoisted on its own petard of lying, cheating and fraudulent behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
And here is where the environmentalists are hoist with their own petard. From Wordnik.com. [When Precautionary Principles Attack] Reference
They are being hoisted by their own petard and still fail to understand it. From Wordnik.com. [Lynn Parramore: Tea Party: Repubs in Disarray or Dems in Denial?] Reference
The petard was mounted on a pivot in one of our covered wagons. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
Papa being, as they say, hoist with his own petard, could produce no answer for this. From Wordnik.com. [The English Witch]
Rather, I take the view that these militant Muslims are being hoist by their own petard. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
J.H. "hoist by his own petard," the first man to fall by this expensive military company. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
The explosion threw him, the rest of the petard and its wagon, back over thirty yards. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
Thus petard answered petard, and the charge by the Republicans upon the Federalists of taking. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
HENNINGER: Well, I think on this campaign finance thing, boy has he been hoist on his own petard. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2008] Reference
Somewhere, throughout all this, Cassius has been hoist by his own petard — his greed for money. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Druids]
He hoped he was giving no indication that he was a man who had just been hoist by his own petard. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
Cradling itself in a puddle of venom along the pavement of sleeping hoisted by ones prickly petard. From Wordnik.com. [Berkeley Stations] Reference
Which makes your comments about Boris's intelligence very much a petard upon which you are hoisted. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
A panning shot of Twain's bedroom takes too long: "We've been hoisted on the petard of our own ponderousness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story Of Jazz] Reference
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