Gabby might remember how Michael recently did the hoist and petard thing. She just joined him.
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NOTE: My wife is the English major and mentioned the Shakespeare origin of the line. This is from Wikipedia.
Hoist with his own petard" is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase’s meaning is literally that a bomb-maker is blown up (“hoist” off the ground) by his own bomb (a “petard” is a small explosive device), and indicates an ironic reversal, or poetic justice.
Gabby might remember how Michael recently did the hoist and petard thing. She just joined him.
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NOTE: My wife is the English major and mentioned the Shakespeare origin of the line. This is from Wikipedia.
Hoist with his own petard" is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase’s meaning is literally that a bomb-maker is blown up (“hoist” off the ground) by his own bomb (a “petard” is a small explosive device), and indicates an ironic reversal, or poetic justice.