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Contraposition Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Idiom for this situation?

A man laid a trap to catch an animal, but it was he that got caught in it.
  

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A man laid a trap to catch an animal, but it was him that got caught. Or are you looking for another way of saying that?

— Milandobrota

  • A man laid a trap to catch an animal, but it was him that got caught.
  • Or are you looking for another way of saying that?
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A man laid a trap to catch an animal, but it was him that got caught.

Or are you looking for another way of saying that?
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Perhaps you want something like "hoisted by his own petard".
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I really don't know.
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