Harris Faulkner

When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator - the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it.

American Journalist

Denise Austin

We use our shoulder muscles to accomplish practically every pulling, pushing, and hoisting task we do (they really do carry the weight of the world!), so they're a great place to start building strength.

American Author

Zebulon Pike

Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.

American Soldier

Sam Darnold

I think every kid who wants to play in the NFL has a dream of hoisting that Lombardi. It's what we all strive for, and it's the end goal for every team.

American Athlete

Milkha Singh

I came from the bottom, from nothing. To a man who has nothing in his life, imagine what it's like to be hoisted on someone's shoulders.

Indian Athlete

Bruce Oldfield

My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.

English Designer

H. L. Mencken

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

American Writer

Adam Vinatieri

There's a lot of fun things about this sport, but trying to hoist that trophy at the end is what we all play for.

Jay Duplass

In ultralight backpacking, modified gear pieces come into play, like a tent you hoist with your trekking poles.

American Director

Lynn Davies

When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.

British Athlete

Refers to actual, often strenuous, movement upwards or in lifting.

Physical Movement

Commonly used in the context of raising flags or symbolic items during official events.

Ceremonial Actions

Implies that someone received help to be elevated or raised.

Assistance

The noun form suggests a single, often quick act of lifting, not a prolonged effort.

Brief Effort

Used informally to describe the act of quickly drinking, mostly in casual settings.

Colloquial Usage

Specific to machinery used for lifting, often found on construction sites or in warehouses.

Industrial Context

Using a 'hoist' usually involves adherence to safety regulations and practices.

Safety Considerations

The phrase implies a twist of fate, often with an ironic or unfortunate outcome.

Irony or Misfortune

The idiom dates back to Shakespeare's time, giving it a rich historical background.

Literary Origin

 she will be learning valuable lessons all the time when this happens and the fact that she's killing big animals like this is means that those are only going to happen more and more and eventually it will drive her to learn how to hoist kills but i'm afraid this is just too big and too heavy for her she's got no chance i mean

Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...

 takes all hands to hoist to the unwieldy canvas up to the top of the teepee get our stick put in handled right in there and push that all the way up to the top okay sinks heavy they work the canvas up the poles like a sail is raised on the mast of a boat push that to the top okay yeah

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 you lose it and someone comes along and steals it from you it's not exactly the best feeling in the world so luckily hosana will know that he will know that the other predators are around and that is exactly why leopards do what they do and hoist which we see on a regular

Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...

 and that was what was planned for dinner that night. And so as the story goes, my grandmother, in the birthing bed, in labor, hoists herself up on one elbow and wrings that chicken's neck, right? And that is how my mother came into this world.

The political progress...

 resurrected itself and it may come from having to cook he move up the tree maybe you was chased by he know and he had to hoist his kill a lot faster than he was comfortable with and maybe it's just a little bit inflamed but as we said oh

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 lawyer for the rest of his life but he published the seaman's friend to help the this or the mistreated seaman of the 19th century who hoisted the sales that at that time powered the world and the idea I want to leave you with thanks to

The de-extinction of...

 the feeling that I felt when we hoisted her sails. As a four-year-old child, it was the greatest sense of freedom that I could ever imagine. I made my mind up there and then that one day, somehow, I was going to sail around the world.

The surprising thing I...

 Vincenzo Peruggia hoisted a painting off the wall and slipped down the back stairs of the Louvre. He was close to freedom, the exit just before him when he encountered a two-pronged the door was locked and footsteps were approaching.

Why is the Mona Lisa so...

 right zip yes yeah same areas same sort of strategy you know feed hoist train them keep them safe she's very interested in me I said I think last night someone said she's

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 so you've hoisted some of this orange goo out of the water that is blue whale droppings very fierce bitter kind of salty smell to it very very much seafood

Hoist

To lift or raise something using ropes or a machine.

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An act of lifting or raising something.

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To drink something in large gulps.

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A lifting device, typically in a building for lifting heavy items.

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Hoist with one's own petard - To be caught in one's own trap.

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Physical Movement

Ceremonial Actions

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