Timeline for Why "hoist" in "Hoist with one's own petard"?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 7, 2018 at 13:30 | comment | added | Brian Donovan | "Mines" in this context refers not to explosive devices (as in "ban land mines") but rather to tunnels dug by besiegers for the purpose of planting explosives under defensive walls, and getting safely away after lighting the fuse (not under fire). Tunnels dug by the besieged, beneath the besiegers' tunnels, for planting explosives to collapse these and thus bury alive the besiegers' sappers or "enginers," are "countermines." These matters are discussed in some detail by Captains Fluellen and Macmorris at the siege of Harfleur in Henry V 3.2. | |
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| Jan 12, 2015 at 16:31 | history | edited | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2015 at 16:30 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | "One of these days Alice, Pow! Straight to the Moon!" | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 16:29 | comment | added | terdon | Thanks for the more literary take on this. Your suggestion makes a lot of sense. This, then, would be poetic license in its purest form! | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 16:24 | history | answered | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |