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Donkees

(31,464 posts) Mon Sep 24, 2018, 11:28 AM Sep 2018

Injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others.

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Injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others. (Original Post) Donkees Sep 2018 OP

! calimary Sep 2018 #1

Hoist by his own petard, I think is the original version. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #2

Which literally means... Dave Starsky Sep 2018 #3

Yep. From Hamlet: The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #4

kick Donkees Sep 2018 #5

calimary

(81,505 posts)

1. !

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Mon Sep 24, 2018, 11:29 AM

Sep 2018

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,866 posts)

2. Hoist by his own petard, I think is the original version.

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Mon Sep 24, 2018, 11:30 AM

Sep 2018

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)

3. Which literally means...

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 24, 2018, 11:38 AM

Sep 2018

Blown into the air by your own bomb.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,866 posts)

4. Yep. From Hamlet:

Reply to Dave Starsky (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 24, 2018, 11:41 AM

Sep 2018

For ’tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petard; and't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon.

Donkees

(31,464 posts)

5. kick

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Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:51 PM

Sep 2018

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