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词汇 petard
释义 petard
noun
uk /petˈɑːd/ us /pɪˈtɑːrd/
 be hoist(ed) with/by your own petard
→ hoist(见 hoist)
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Examples of petard


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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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