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"Hoist with his own petard" is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase's meaning is that a...32 KB (3,767 words) - 14:19, 16 May 2024- III, Scene 4: Hoist with his own petard Act III, Scene 4: I must be cruel, only to be kind (several songs, including Cruel to Be Kind by Nick Lowe) Act...5 KB (724 words) - 00:21, 28 June 2024
turn" "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" "Hoist with his own petard" "Honorificabilitudinitatibus" "Ides of March" "The lady doth protest...14 KB (1,079 words) - 11:49, 27 November 2023- foe as with their back to them." The irony was that the club was hoist by its own petard. The FA promptly banned the recalcitrant Lancastrian clubs from...8 KB (822 words) - 14:59, 5 May 2024
faith is that putting this up as itself, it will hoist itself on its own petard, that it's comical just as it is," explained producer Maggie Rowe. The...120 KB (11,628 words) - 19:13, 27 August 2024- Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (category Works by Jamie Rix)them/a supporting character) which eventually goes wrong in a hoisted with their own petard way, with the story ending with the main character either being...112 KB (3,458 words) - 04:14, 8 June 2024
- Latin obscenity (category Profanity by language)pireto is frequently used. The English word petard, found mostly in the cliché "hoist with his own petard", comes from an early explosive device, the...113 KB (15,210 words) - 20:36, 16 February 2024
- The George Carlin Show (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from September 2016)New York City. Most of the scenes took place in The Moylan Tavern, owned and run by bartender Jack Donahue (Anthony Starke), who had inherited the establishment...21 KB (935 words) - 05:18, 20 February 2024
- danger', The Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2003. Correlli Barnett, 'Hoist upon one's own petard', The Daily Telegraph, 26 August 2003. Correlli Barnett, "Folly...38 KB (5,089 words) - 10:54, 30 June 2024
- manga series written and illustrated by Mitsurō Kubo. It was serialized in 2011 in Weekly Shōnen Magazine published by Kodansha until reaching its conclusion...24 KB (705 words) - 09:42, 5 August 2023
their drudgery in a dreamy state of bliss, and politicians are hoisted on their own petards." While Laury's quilts may be politically charged and confrontational...42 KB (5,265 words) - 05:26, 19 July 2024
Ramsay MacDonald (category Politicians affected by a party expulsion process)international socialist aims, but it was overwhelmed by the war. His 1917 book, National Defence, revealed his own long-term vision for peace. Although disappointed...91 KB (10,161 words) - 07:09, 25 July 2024- said that his own reputation was increased merely because he could tell boys a little bit about Walkey. Perhaps Walkey is best assessed by his impact. Geoffrey...38 KB (1,983 words) - 20:56, 8 June 2024
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- Ex-Judge," I retorted, "but as you have already testified" (here I hoisted his own petard at him rather ingeniously), "I am more an au fait in the extermination
- (1922), p. 394. 'Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom Of him gave fire to it. Francis Beaumont, Fair
- is in petto at any moment, that the cool town man may be hoisted in a second on this petard, that makes all so piquant for the spectator. To make Mariow