1. The school debate hoisted conservatives on their own petard.

2. Section 28 hoisted Labour on the petard of its own contradictions.

3. One of the earliest explosive devices was the petard, which was a mine used to breach castle walls or gates.

4. Hoist with one's own petard.

5. The police hoisted the criminal with his own petard.

6. Own petard when he tried to kill his wife.

7. The criminal was hoist with his own petard when he tried to kill his wife. because he accidentally drank the poison that he prepared for his wife.

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8. It was indeed a clever plan to entrap his opponent, but in the end he was hoist by his own petard.

9. As elsewhere, a too zealous objector is hoist by his own petard.

10. He discovered that he was being hoist with his own petard.

11. The plan, evidently, is to hoist Pretoria with its own petard.

12. However, if the products are too alternative, the property buyers beyond the psychological ability, I am afraid, is hoist with their own petard .

13. Should the crazed chasers be driving you into a corner, a treasure trunk or a petard may be your last chance for survival.

14. Look for them to be hoisted by their own petard—or impaled on the broadsword of history—sooner or later.

15. Critics say he is in danger of being hoist with his own petard.

16. He wanted to cheat others, but was cheated by others; he was really hoist by his own petard .

17. Whatever its origin, it is comically ruthless, assaulting him with unlucky coincidences, coarse puns, karmic blowbacks, and punctual hoistings by his own petard.