take credit for someone else’s work
use someone else’s ideas to their own advantage
take success or praise away from someone
win praise by pre-emptying or forestall someone else’s attempt
to take attention away from someone else
They all worked together on the project, but while submitting it, one of them stole the thunder.
She did not announce the news at the party because her friend was getting married and she did not want to steal her thunder.
Somebody stole my thunder by leaking the designs I had made on the internet.
Sadly, stealing someone else’s thunder is a common practice in the corporate world.
I had put in a lot of effort to produce a perfect analysis, but in the end, a colleague of mine stole my thunder.
Since the presentation was made by him, we should let him present it, else we will be stealing his thunder.
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