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But they are hoisted on the petard of their own muddle.
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It is rather the case of the engineer being hoisted with his own petard.
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They have been hoist with their own petard, and they do not like the consequences.
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It is farcical that any industry should be put into a situation in which it is hoist by its own petard as sales rise.
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I am not sure that he is not hoist with his own petard, as he was in the last discussions.
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I am very anxious to be in order and not to be hoist with my own petard.
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Would you, as an ex-military man, care to know what a petard is?
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Yet, if we are not careful, we shall run out of road space, grind to a halt and be hoist by our own petard.
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I only wish that he gave us more opportunity of hoisting him with his own petard.
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Does he not realise that, by saying that, he hoists himself with his own petard?
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My grave concern is that the good idea of family credit is likely to be hoisted on the petard of that opposition.
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Now they are hoist with their own petard.
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Subsequent events showed that he was hoist by his own petard.
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We shall be hoist with our own petard.
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Truly they were hoist with their own petard.
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Again, he is hoist with his own petard because, in that context, one cannot possibly limit the word "assistance" to information and exclude advice.
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I think it is a case of the engineer hoist by his own petard.
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So if it is not very careful it is going to be hoist, to some extent, with its own petard.
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It is surprising how people can be hoist by their own petard.
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I then become hoist with my own petard.
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We know that he has been hoist by his own petard and blown up by the device that he primed.
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We would not have been hoisted on that particular petard if that lesson had been learnt.
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It is, of course, perfectly fair to hoist anyone who has left the backbench for the front bench on the petard of his previous speeches.
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In any event he has been hoist by his own petard of convenience—because the security issue has come to pieces in his hands.
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I suggest the reason is he has been hoist with his party's own petard.
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