Usually means: Caught by one's own scheme.
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  1. hoist with one's own petard: Merriam-Webster
  2. hoist with one's own petard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hoist with one's own petard, hoist with one's own petard: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hoist with one's own petard: Wiktionary
  5. hoist with one's own petard, hoist with ones own petard: Dictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hoist with one's own petard)

adjective:  Alternative form of hoist by one's own petard [(idiomatic) Hurt or destroyed by one's own plot or device intended for another; "blown up by one's own bomb".]


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