| 单词 | steal somebody's thunder |
| 释义 | steal somebody's thunder to anticipate or preempt somebody's words or actions, thus lessening or destroying their effect [said to have originated in an exclamation by the playwright and critic John Dennis (1657–1734) in reaction to a special effect of thunder during a performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth: ‘Damn them! They will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder.’ His own play Appius and Virginia, which had been a failure, had used the same effect.]Main Entry: steal |
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