NOIRTRASH
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HOISTED BY HIS OWN PETARD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard
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Blind_Justice
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The fucking hardest thing to get right as a non-native speaker.
SamScribble
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Interesting. For most of my life, the expression has normally used the verb 'hoist' rather than 'hoisted'. But maybe it's changing. English is a living language.
