“Truth bomb.” His words, not yours or mine,
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Also not words of mine or yours… "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 ("hoist", the past tense of "hoise"
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A petard from a 17th-century manuscript of military designs
In modern vernacular usage of the idiom, the preposition "with" is commonly exchanged for a different preposition, particularly "by" (i.e. "hoist by his own petard"
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