But they are hoisted on the petard of their own muddle.
It is rather the case of the engineer being hoisted with his own petard.
They have been hoist with their own petard, and they do not like the consequences.
It is farcical that any industry should be put into a situation in which it is hoist by its own petard as sales rise.
I am not sure that he is not hoist with his own petard, as he was in the last discussions.
I am very anxious to be in order and not to be hoist with my own petard.
Would you, as an ex-military man, care to know what a petard is?
Yet, if we are not careful, we shall run out of road space, grind to a halt and be hoist by our own petard.
