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    Quote Originally Posted by bobsticks
    Wiki's useful for these types of situations...McGraw-Hill American Dictionary of Idioms too:

    hoist with one's own petard
    Fig. to be harmed or disadvantaged by an action of one's own which was meant to harm someone else.


    Etymology: based on the literal meaning of hoist by your own petard (blown into the air by your own explosive device), an expression made popular in Shakespeare's play, “Hamlet”
    Cease and desist with these witticisms, or else you'll force me to uncork my greenie gun! Given the collateral damage that will result (i.e., the number of chiclets I'll need to pass out before handing another one over to you), you don't want that on your conscience, do you?
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    Do your worst...hehehe...unbeknownst to the general public I abdicated my throne quite some time ago...that King be not me, sir...
    So, I broke into the palace
    With a sponge and a rusty spanner
    She said : "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing"
    I said : "That's nothing - you should hear me play piano"

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