steal sb's thunder
to do what someone else was going to do before they do it, especially if this takes success or praise away from them:
Sandy stole my thunder when she announced that she was pregnant two days before I'd planned to tell people about my pregnancy.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Surpassing in quality or number
- beat
- catch
- catch up
- compare
- crown
- eclipse
- exceed
- go one better idiom
- leave sb standing idiom
- north
- outperform
- outran
- outrun
- outsell
- outshine
- outstrip
- tower above/over sth
- transcend
- upstage
- writ large idiom
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