| 单词 | to steal thunder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto steal (someone's) thunder d. Figurative phrase to steal (someone's) thunder: to use the ideas, policies, etc., devised by another person, political party, etc., for one's own advantage or to anticipate their use by the originator. Derived from the utterance of John Dennis (1657–1734), ‘Damn them!..they will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder,’ on hearing the stage thunder produced by a method designed for his own play of Appius & Virginia being used for a performance of Macbeth. (Spence quoted in W. S. Walsh Lit. Curios. (1893) 1052; cf. Pope's note on Dunciad ii. 223.) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > plagiarize [verb] to steal (someone's) thunder1900 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > occur earlier or go before [verb (intransitive)] > act in advance or anticipate > anticipate someone to steal (someone's) thunder1900 to beat a person to the punch1965 1900 E. E. Peake Darlingtons iii. 23 You must all remember that papa had stolen my thunder. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson ix. 144 ‘Happy maid!’ he murmured. Zuleika replied that he was stealing her thunder: hadn't she envied the girl at his lodgings? 1931 Time & Tide 12 Sept. 1049 Sir Oswald Mosley's exploit was to steal a little of the protectionist thunder temporarily abandoned by the Conservatives. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xii. 222 It is important..to disregard the jealousy of the modern literary gent who hates science because science has stolen literature's thunder. 1973 A. Broinowski Take One Ambassador ii. 19 He would have been watching the returns in the Senate elections I guess. This'll steal a bit of their thunder, that's for sure. < as lemmas |
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