Today Mr. Fixit received some “old folks” mail as I call it. It was an advertisement from the Scooter Store. Of course, I just had to make a remark. He said, “You’ll be getting this stuff pretty soon--you received you Medicare card yesterday.”
He’s learned to dish it out pretty well. He zings me every now and then. He had a good teacher--me. Hoisted by my own petard.
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Petard sent me to the dictionary.
–noun
1. an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
2. a kind of firecracker.
3. ( initial capital letter ) Also called Flying Dustbin. a British spigot mortar of World War II that fired a 40-pound (18 kg) finned bomb, designed to destroy pillboxes and other concrete obstacles.
—Idiom
4. hoist by / withone's own petard, hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.
The connotation of both Post and Comment left me perplexed and confounded, at the same time questioning my astuteness in terminology.
(i.e.....WTF??!!)
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