Imagine the sapper's surprise if that one explodes prematurely.
"For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his owne petar"
-- Shakespeare, Hamlet III iv."
Can't wait for this to happen to our libs on this side of the border. They invented that liberal word game.
Spending is "Investment".
Tax cuts are "Spending".
And Tereza informed us yesterday that "real security" is
feeding your kids and getting them ready for school.
Now....if they could only find a new meaning for the word "petard".
Imagine the sapper's surprise if that one explodes prematurely.
"For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his owne petar"
-- Shakespeare, Hamlet III iv."
Dictionary.com defines it as:-
pe·tard
n.
1. A small bell-shaped bomb used to breach a gate or wall.
2. A loud firecracker.
[French p*tard, from Old French, from peter, to break wind, from pet, a breaking of wind, from Latin pditum, from neuter past participle of pdere, to break wind.
Word History: The French used p*tard, “a loud discharge of intestinal gas,” for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city.
“To be hoist by one's own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.” The French noun pet, “fart,” developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, “fart.”
When it comes to Liberals then they are an bunch of old petards.