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To steal one’s thunder

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Molly really stole my thunder when I told the girls that our son starts talking. She starts bragging that their Cathy could talk since she was ten months.

To take attention from someone else’s accomplishements or good news
to get it for themselves

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 Spoken
Informal

Example 1
Molly really stole my thunder when I told the girls that our son starts talking. She starts bragging that their Cathy could talk since she was ten months.

Example 2
I was telling everyone a joke I heard yesterday and my colleague just interrupted me to tell a different one. I hate it when he steals my thunder.

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