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jpstocky | 18:45 Mon 22nd Nov 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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What is a Petard. As in hoisted on your own P.
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The French used p�tard, �a loud discharge of intestinal gas,� for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. �To be hoist by one's own petard,� a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means �to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.�
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