Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - petard
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(petards) If someone who has planned to harm someone else is hoist with their own petard or hoist by their own petard, their plan in fact results in harm to themselves. The students were hoist by their own petards, however, as Granada decided to transmit the programme anyway. PHRASE: N inflects ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Middle French, from peter to break wind, from pet expulsion of intestinal gas, from Latin peditum, from neuter of peditus, past participle of pedere to break wind; akin to Greek bdein to break wind Date: 1598 1. a case containing an explosive to break down a door or gate or breach a wall 2. a firework that explodes with a loud report ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. hist. 1 a small bomb used to blast down a door etc. 2 a kind of firework or cracker. Phrases and idioms hoist with one's own petard affected oneself by one's schemes against others. Etymology: F p{eacute}tard f. p{eacute}ter break wind ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. петарда, хлопушка, шутиха (род фейерверка) 2. ист. петарда Id: hoist with (by) one's own petard —- попавший в собственную ловушку, пострадавший от собственных козней; кто роет другому яму, сам в нее попадет ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1598, "small bomb used to blow in doors and breech walls," from Fr. pйtard, from M.Fr. pйter "break wind," from O.Fr. pet "a fart," from L. peditum, from neut. pp. of pedere "to break wind." Surviving in hoist with one's own petard (or some variant) "blown up with one's own bomb," from "Hamlet" (1605). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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