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Old 17-Jun-2006, 04:53
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How to understand"Tom always steals Joy's thunder on the basketball playground!
If you 'steal somebody's thunder', it means that they were trying to make a big impression ('create some thunder'), and you were better than them (so 'stole their thunder').
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