what does hoisted by your own platard mean?

Answer 1

It means you've been fooled or foiled by your own plan. Typically, it's when you've devised a somewhat dubious plan to try to trick or entrap another person, but in the end you end up getting hosed and not the person you intended to get. That's when people say you've been hoisted by your own petard. (Notice it's PETARD not platard)

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Answer 2

Definitions
petard
noun

1. historical
A small bomb for blasting a hole in a wall, door, etc.
Idiom: hoist with one's own petard

Blown up by one's own bomb, ie the victim of one's own trick or cunning; caught in one's own trap.
Etymology: 16c: from French pétard a banger or firecracker, from péter to break wind, from Latin pedere.

The petard was a small container full of gunpowder with a fuse stuck in it, very much like the bombs in cartoons. Naturally to throw one would be difficult due to it's weight so the bomb was rigged on a sort of slingshot, being held in a pouch at the end of a rope that was attached to a pole. The idea was to light the fuse and swing the pole so that the petard would be flung at the target, usually a wall, some distance away so that the detonation would not harm the thrower. Unfortunately it was a very unreliable method and often the bomb would be caught up in the sling and explode before it could be thrown. This, of course, would 'hoist' the thrower in the explosion thus being 'hoist with his own petard'.

Answer 3

The correct past tense is HOIST by your own petard, not hoisted, apparently. A petard was a small bomb device used for blowing doors off. Useful for ending a siege, but they didn't have very long fuses and the poor bugger who was sent to set the petard had to be able to get away pretty sharpish, not only to escape the retaliatory fire from the enemy but to avoid being hoist by his own petard, or blow up by his own bomb!
The phrase has come to mean being negatively affected by something you intended to hurt someone else.

Answer 4

"Hoist by your own petard

Meaning

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

Origin

A petard is or rather was, as they have long since fallen out of use, a small engine of war used to blow breaches in gates or walls. They were originally metallic and bell-shaped but later cubical wooden boxes. Whatever the shape, the significant feature was that they were full of gunpowder - basically what we would now call a bomb."

Answer 5

Could be Petard. A petard is something like a barrel of gunpowder that is used in ancient sieges. When the barrel went off and blew up the artillerist who was planting it, he is said to have been hoisted by his own petard.

Answer 6

the word is 'petard' which is a type of flag or scarf. or it can also mean the charge to fire munitions. also slang in french for a majiuana joint. the expression means you are undone by your own fault. or you have given away your secret or plan by your own words or foolishness

Answer 7

I don't think PLATARD is a word so i can't give u a definition.

Answer 8

completely meaningless

Answer 9

Dunno!