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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; Olog-hai

As one said in medieval times: “Hoist on her own petard.”

Or to quote the Bible, she is reaping what she sowed.


42 posted on 06/13/2023 6:07:12 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard

“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 that a bomb-maker is blown (”hoisted”) off the ground by his own bomb (”petard”), and indicates an ironic reversal or poetic justice.[1]


44 posted on 06/13/2023 6:09:02 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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