If you're trying to 'steal someone's thunder,' then you're opting to stop someone receiving praise or success by doing just what they were planning to do or say before they have a chance to do it.It's a common enough phrase that you probably don't hear every day, but one that has been thrown around in movies and plays for hundreds of years. said it to Samuel L. Jackson in the film Captain Marvel while portraying the title character, and 's character in said he didn't want to steal a child's thunder in the nativity performance near the climax of the film.
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