hoist on one's own petard
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
1
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of hoist by one's own petard.
Example Sentences
- "Sword in hand, U. S. Grant took up the rear as the procession hut-hutted up the front steps past a blurb from Publishers Weekly (“A lazy-day literary luncheon turns into an afternoon of terror as five novelists in the habit of using public figures for their own artistic purposes are hoist on their own petard—shocking, but overdue”), and on into the grimly compelling first novel."