# hoist by one's own petard
## English
### Alternative forms

* hoist with one's own petard, hoist on one's own petard, hoisted by one's own petard

### Etymology

From the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, see quotations.

### Pronunciation

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### Adjective

hoist by one's own petard
* (idiomatic) Hurt or destroyed by one's own plot or device intended for another; "blown up by one's own bomb".
    He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC,, line 208:For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his owne petar, an't ſhall goe hard
** 1963 June, “Second thoughts on Beeching”, in Modern Railways, page 362:Unhappily, the country as well as Mr. Marples has been hoist by the Minister's petard. (Mr. Marples was the Minister concerned)
** 2015 August 27, Michael Signer, “What Happens When Donald Trump Stirs Up 'Passionate' Supporters”, in The Atlantic‎:The danger with Trump would seem to be that, like Berlusconi, he would be hoist by his own petard, self-destructing precisely through the agent of his rise, and dragging the rest of us with him.
** 2019 September 4, Jon Henley, “'Fighting for survival': European papers maul Johnson after defeat”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:At last, the opposition spoke with one voice, and Boris Johnson was hoist by his own petard. It’s hard to see how he gets out of it.

#### Usage notes

* In the US, the forms in "hoisted" are about as common as the forms in "hoist", in contrast to other usage of the past and past participle, in which "hoisted" is fifteen times more common. Similarly in the UK, "hoisted" is far more common than "hoist" for general use of the verb, but, in this specific idiom, both forms are seen; a writer might be more likely to use "hoisted" when thinking of the hoisting as an event that occurred to the victim, and "hoist" when thinking of it as a state in which the victim finds themselves ("She's been hoisted by..." / "Now she's hoist by...").

#### Translations

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 害人害己 (hàirénhàijǐ), 作法自毙 (zh) (zuòfǎzìbì), 自食其果 (zh) (zìshíqíguǒ)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: wie een put graaft voor een ander, valt er zelf in
Egyptian: (ḫr n qn.f) (fallen through his own violence)
Finnish: mennä omaan ansaansa
French: l’arroseur arrosé, tel est pris qui croyait prendre (fr)
German: mit den eigenen Waffen schlagen, wer andern eine Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein
Hungarian: saját kelepcéjébe/csapdájába esik
Icelandic: genginn í eigin gildru m, (to be hoist by one's own petard) ganga í eigin gildru, fallinn á eigin bragði m, (to be hoist by one's own petard) falla á eigin bragði
Indonesian: senjata makan tuan
Italian: cadere nella propria trappola, darsi la zappa sui piedi, fare autogol
Japanese: 罠拵えて首突っ込む (わなこしらえてくびつっこむ, wana koshiraete kubi tsukkomu)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: wpadać we własny sidła impf, wpaść we własny sidła pf
Russian: попа́сть в свою́ же лову́шку pf (popástʹ v svojú že lovúšku, literally “to be caught by one's own trap”)
Spanish: una cucharada de su propia medicina, ir por lana y volver trasquilado
Swedish: fångas i sin egen fälla (to be caught in one’s own trap), smaka på sin egen medicin (to taste one’s own medicine)
Turkish: kendi kazdığı çukura düşmek
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: gậy ông đập lưng ông (vi) :

### See also

* beat someone at their own game
* he who digs a pit for others falls in himself
* Leopards Eating (People's) Faces Party
* like turkeys voting for (an early) Christmas
* own goal
* rod for one's back
* shoot oneself in the foot
* the biter bit
* the shoe is on the other foot
* turn the tables