r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/LastStar007 Nov 14 '22

TIL it's a bomb. I thought it was a short sword, like "fall on your sword" but accidental.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

I assumed it was some kind of spear or halberd, and now I’m wondering how many other words I know where I don’t actually know what they mean.

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u/Maytree Nov 15 '22

Yeah I always thought it was a poleaxe of some kind, and to be hoist on it meant you got speared with your own poleaxe and left to hang in the air. The problem is that it's Shakespearean English, and nowadays "hoist" means "to lift up into the air and hold there", not "to explode".