On the night of October 30, 1942, it was HMS
Petard, helped by Wellesley aircraft, that first located U-Boat U-559 and brought it to the surface with depth charges.
HMS
Petard, along with HMS Pakenham, HMS Dulverton, HMS Hero and HMS Hurworth, were sent to hunt down the U-Boat.
Condemned forever to the back benches, hoist by his own
petard, the hapless Fox hunted down by the pack.
Young visitors will also learn the origin of the phrase "to be hoisted by one's own
petard" - which refers to a bell-shaped brass bomb called the
petard which was loaded with gunpowder and placed at the door of an enemy castle.
L'Iran a dementi tout attentat contre Mahmoud Ahmadinejad apres une explosion hier mercredi sur le passage du convoi du President iranien a Hamedan (ouest), initialement attribuee par un site internet a une grenade mais ensuite officiellement imputee a un "
petard" artisanal.
IRONICALLY, to "hoist with his own
petard" sounds like something a bully at a posh prep school might do.
order would condone A one-time wife, hoist by her own
petard, Living in
"I think he might well be in the position of being hoisted by his own
petard because once you start these things running, they're very difficult to stop."
DUBYA Bush has been hoist with his own
petard following the admissions by al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of a vast catalogue of terrorist crimes.
You attach the
petard to the gate, light the fuse, and start to run away very, very fast." Those less swift were "hoisted by their own
petard."
It's the Laocoon, Harry Potter--style: Just as the Trojan priest was attacked by sea snakes as punishment for correctly predicting the future, so this wizard seems to have been hoisted by his own starry
petard.
Anheuser-Busch was hoist on its own
petard last week, as ABC and its sister cable network ESPN rejected three Anheuser-Busch commercials that spoof two advertising campaigns of rival Miller Brewing, according to media reports released last week.
The Petardier's specialty was the '
petard' (Shakespeare wasn't strong on spelling!).
ALASTAIR DOWN, in his article on the effects of a hunting ban on racing, is in danger of being hoist by his own
petard.
It added that the company which worded the policy as it did "has been `hoist on its own
petard.'"
