looking up what a petard is and finding out is ye olde breaching charge, so being hoisted by your own one means you fumbled a bomb and blew yourself up
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looking up what a petard is and finding out is ye olde breaching charge, so being hoisted by your own one means you fumbled a bomb and blew yourself up
YEAH FOR THE LONGEST TIME I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE A FUCKING HOOK OR SCONCE OR SOMETHING
honestly it makes the word "hoist" like twice as funny in context too
bombed so hard you got fuckin YANKED into the SKY