Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French pétard, from péter ‘break wind’.
Idioms
See petard in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe hoist/hoisted by/with your own petard
- to be hurt or to have problems as a result of your own plans to hurt or trick others
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