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Old 9th Dec 2010, 06:33
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Just a Grunt
 
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Hoist them high on their own (outsourced) petard.
a particularly apt choice of metaphor, given that Hamlet was referring to an "engineer being hoist with his own petar[d]" and "hoist" equates to being "blown up".
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