"It was beyond delicious -- it was cosmically, karmically determined that the Supreme Court be hoisted on its own petard," one movie star's political consultant crowed.
The irrational orthodoxy drove enlightened Royals fans up the wall, but all they could do was shake their heads and shrug that the team had yet again been "Yosted," a verb best defined as a dugout version of being hoisted with one's own petard.
It was a classic case of being hoisted by one's own petard.
On this reading, the World Service was hoist on the petard of its own, well researched, enthusiasms.
"The three major utilities there agreed to a cap on their rates and have now gotten hoisted on that petard rather badly".
Banks that take too much risk should be hoist on that petard.
"Well, he is now being hoisted on that petard because Russia does not have the money to have a strong military".
In fintech, the newly popular neighborhood where I live, we have had at least two recent examples of companies being hoisted on this petard.
But it's hard to avoid such delicious irony when writing on the subject of how Republicans have been hoist on yet another one of their own petards.
The New Republic headlined one article: "Rattner Hoisted on His Own Petard".
