The man who had his thunder stolen - how a 'stolen' sound effect gave us a new idiom

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Published Sep 26, 2021

How did the anger of an 18th-Century playwright give us the idiom 'stole my thunder'? We look at how one man's rage gave birth to an expression still commonly used today.

0:00 The origins of the idiom 'Stole my thunder'
1:04 Examples of 'stole my thunder'

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