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Today's podcast is to steal my thunder.

Steel,

S-T-E-A-L,

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My thunder.

Thunder, T-H-U-N-D-E-R. Now, sometimes when it rains outside, there's that loud noise from the sky. That is thunder.

So to steal my thunder, what does that mean? This expression actually means to steal my applause.

Do you understand applause?

A-P-P-P-L-A-U-S-E?

If you give a speech after this speech, if people are happy, they...

We call that the thunder of applause.

So to steal somebody's thunder means to steal their glory or to steal their fame.

So the idea is you worked really hard to create something.

Maybe it was a business proposal.

Maybe it was an art project.

Maybe it was some writing assignment. And you worked the hardest. Because of you,

it's excellent. But then somebody else, maybe your boss, or maybe somebody you were working with,

that person says, I did it.

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