Shannel, beautiful, stunning, gorgeous Las Vegas showgirl, she hoisted herself on her own petard -- for real.
His healthy contempt for conventional schooling is wonderfully betrayed by John Patrick Norman McHennessy in The Boy Who Was Always Late, where a stick-wielding teacher is hoist on the petard of his own literal-mindedness.
Then though, unlikely as it should be, comes the doomsday scenario that will always haunt England and their supporters, the Adelaide spectre, for having made much of the running in the match it is they who are the only side that can lose, hoist, in a way, on the petard of their own heady first innings run-rate.
On this reading, the World Service was hoist on the petard of its own, well researched, enthusiasms.
It has been fascinating to watch the televised right being hoist on their own petard of crude generalisation.
Key to this was the manner in which the bowlers, even Johnson to an extent, hoist England on their own petard of "bowling dry".
They can plead inconsistency and they'd have a lot of support, but in their attempts to free Meekings for the final they are rather hoist by their own petard in terms of the rulebook that carries their imprimatur.
"We were hoist on our own petard with that.
Indeed, so enjoyable was my own routine set up by myself for my own offspring, that I have sort of been hoist by my own petard by it, since with four, it now takes about two hours to complete, and the younger three still insist on it.
Algebraist - "Fifa is hoisting its own petard with the opposition to Video Replay technology.
4. Finally, is anyone else struck by the dreadful irony of Djokovic being hoisted by his own petard in the matter of the pre-serve ball bounce?
