This idiom was first used in Shakespeare’s play 𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑙𝑒𝑡, but there is an incident in the Bible that’s a perfect example of someone being hoisted by his own petard. What does this idiom mean?
During a banquet, the lights go out. A parrot’s screams are heard as it is strangled, and a dead man is discovered close by. Who was the intended victim? Lord and Lady Faversham were holding a banquet to honor the new Prime Minister. They weren’t holding it out of their own desire, but they had…
Are you restrained by bands or by banns? Do you eat at a banquet or a banquette? Is a poet called a bard or a barred? Does a bare or a bear live in the woods? bands, banns, bans Bands are materials used to restrain or confine. The bands around their wrists were not easily broken.…
