Voorbeelden van petard

• 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.

• I only wish that he gave us more opportunity of hoisting him with his own petard.

• Does he not realise that, by saying that, he hoists himself with his own petard?

• My grave concern is that the good idea of family credit is likely to be hoisted on the petard of that opposition.

• Now they are hoist with their own petard.

• Subsequent events showed that he was hoist by his own petard.

• We shall be hoist with our own petard.

• Truly they were hoist with their own petard.