The explosive origin of ‘hoist by one’s own petard’
Sep 27, 2021
2 minutes
New York’s former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been “hoist on his own petard,” several news organizations reported recently. Many people use this idiom correctly while being unable to identify quite what the metaphor involves. According to one online dictionary of idioms, it means being “injured ...
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