| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| steal someone’s thunder |
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| To upstage someone; to destroy the effect of what someone does or says by doing or saying the same thing first: “The Republicans stole the Democrats’ thunder by including the most popular provisions of the Democratic proposal in their own bill.” | 1 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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