I don’t think it was intended as a serious translation.
A petard is a bomb, and to be hoist means (or meant as Shakespeare used it, for the expression comes from Hamlet) to be blown up into the air.
I don’t think it was intended as a serious translation.
A petard is a bomb, and to be hoist means (or meant as Shakespeare used it, for the expression comes from Hamlet) to be blown up into the air.