gonna throw a flag on this use of "petard"
Of the 10 major pieces of legislation Trump vowed to fight for “in the first 100 days,” only one has been introduced https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/us/politics/donald-trump-100-days.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news …pic.twitter.com/8tUTniuvIQ
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Google your inscrutable metaphors people!
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How did we all agree to make this an idiom when nobody (least of all me) knows what "hoist" means in context or "petard" at all
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Shakespeare snuck it into the lexicon while we were napping, the rascal
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If he had accidentally waken us up before completing his mischief, you might say he’d been hoist by his own p[struck by enormous boulder]
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Don't encourage him
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