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单词 hoist with one's own petard
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hoist with one's own petard

have one's plans to cause trouble for others backfire on one
搬起石头砸自己的脚; 害人反害己。
[ORIGIN: from Shakespeare's Hamlet (iii. iv. 207); hoist is in the sense 'lifted and removed', past participle of dialect hoise (see HOIST).]

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