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Перевод: petard

[существительное]
петарда ; хлопушка

Тезаурус:

1. Earlier, Jean Southworth QC, for Mr Anderson, suggested that the woman had been "hoisted by her own petard".
2. One of the earliest explosive devices was the petard, which was a mine used to breach castle walls or gates.
3. Section 28 hoisted Labour on the petard of its own contradictions.
4. Hoist with one's own petard.
5. The prime minister's smile spread even further in the slightly crooked way it had when he thought he had an opponent hoist with his own petard.
6. Greenberg also warns the Unix contingent not to try to hoist NT on same petard Microsoft is using against Unix.
7. Petards were unreliable and apt to detonate as soon as a match came anywhere near the fuse, resulting in the hapless sapper being blown up or "hoist by his own petard".
8. The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been "hoist with her own petard": if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed, for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely.
9. If it is true that the publication of figures showing a deficit shortly before the election was a significant factor in Labour's "last minute" loss of support, it is surely fitting - a case of Wilson being hoist by his own technocratic petard.
10. As elsewhere, a too zealous objector is hoist by his own petard.
11. The plan, evidently, is to hoist Pretoria with its own petard.
12. He discovered that he was being hoist with his own petard.