Petards

Word PETARDS
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Definitions and meanings of "Petards"

What do we mean by petards?

A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to breach a door or wall.

Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense.

A loud firecracker.

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The word "petards" in example sentences

For the Tea Party: a boatload of petards upon which they can hoist themselves. ❋ Will Durst (2011)

Republicans: hoisting themselves by their own petards since that night in Fords Theater. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you have read the exclamation mark in 'Richard II!' as a third 'I' perhaps you need to take a short break from seeking petards to hoist yourself on, and use the time either to pop down to SpecSavers or to turn up the magnification on your browser. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Perhaps it is only natural for Americans to take some guilty pleasure in watching as the big banks and Wall Street wizards who created this flawed and complex mortgage machine are hoisted on their own petards. ❋ Steven Pearlstein (2010)

(This is also why Obama is smart to let the Birthers hoist themselves on their own petards). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of all the petards in the Republican race, Gingrich has the best chance of being hoist upon his own. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The expanding network of business groups would soon be capable of hoisting the public interest groups on their own petards. ❋ Jacob S. Hacker (2010)

Let these people hoist themselves by their own petards and twist in the wind of their own irrelevance. — ❋ Unknown (2008)

Another point to be made is that the ease of hunting with a corssbow, which has the same hunter success rate as a compound, gets more people in the woods = more popularity = more hunting revenue and support = more land and more opportunity to pursue our sport and educate the petards. ❋ Dave Hurteau (2008)

No. I think both of these men were hoisted by their own petards. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Effeminate men get hoisted on their own chiffon petards. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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