Sentence examples for petard it from inspiring English sources

Given that the hackers have been hoisted on their own petard, it's a delightful bit of Schadenfreude.

While I often prefer to watch analysts hoist themselves with their own petard, it's not often that one dumps out a bit of drivel so short-sighted as George Colony at Forrester.

It was then hoisted on its own petard when it emerged that spending cuts and tax rises worth up to €16bn would be needed if Holland was to meet its EU-set budget deficit target by next year.

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.

Cricket Australia was hoist by its own petard when it was forced to delete a tweet regarding Monty Panesar on the first morning of the Adelaide Test.

"Therefore - by your own petard - it is Oh Bee Oh".

"Hoist with his own petard," I said.

On this reading, the World Service was hoist on the petard of its own, well researched, enthusiasms.

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.

Its 75 mm gun continued to do damage until 16:00, when a modified Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers AVREE) tank fired a large petard charge into its rear entrance.

"It's my petard, not theirs".