steal someone's thunder
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
To take attention or praise away from someone by doing or saying what they intended to do first.
She announced the results before the director could, completely stealing his thunder at the launch.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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