| 释义 |
idiombe hoist with/by your own petard(also be hoist on your own petard AmE)(or be hoisted by/with your own petard)to have problems because of something you have done or said that was intended to give you an advantage or cause problems for other people:The workers were hoist by their own petard, when the inquiry that they had asked for indicated that they were being paid too much, not too little.It is ironic to see the company, which has fought some celebrated lawsuits to defend its interests, hoist on its own petard in a dispute over copyright.NoteThis idiom comes from a line in Shakespeare's playHamlet. A petard was an early kind of bomb, that might explode and kill the soldier who was putting it in position.
|