Better that than being hoist with someone else's petard.
Hoist on its own petard, his government has fallen because it cannot agree on the spending cuts required to meet the new rules by next year.
We get her home and her carers hoist the patient into her armchair.
Working together to improve financial awareness and innovation and casting a wider net around financial inclusion has undoubtedly assisted economic growth and helped millions of people like Anideepa hoist themselves out of poverty.
The Manchester United striker scored his 41st goal for his country, a second-half penalty, to defeat a stubborn Norway team and hoist himself above Michael Owen into outright fourth place on the all-time England scorers' list.
If he's now hoist with his own petard, let us enjoy the spectacle.
So should voters who shrug or cheerfully hoist an early G&T on hearing the news.
I knew I had to get to hospital, but first we had to hoist the anchor up the last 6ft.
They are no longer so eager to tote a 50-pound pack for a week in the Tetons, nor hoist themselves up icy Mount Rainier in Microsoft's backyard (Al Gore's recent ascent of that peak notwithstanding).
Demonstrators even managed to hoist a banner over the parliament building, labelling it a den of thieves.Name them and shame themAll this shamed provincial prosecutors into action at last.
The same Palestinian rejection of Mr Netanyahu's recognition demand, couched not slightingly but in positive and statesmanlike language, could hoist him on his own petard.
