[post_page_title]”Steal one’s thunder”[/post_page_title]
Although “stealing someone’s thunder” is used idiomatically to describe when someone uses your ideas to their advantage, the origin of this phrase is surprisingly literal. The story goes that the literary critic and failure of a playwright, John Dennis, had invented a new method of producing thunder for his play Appius and Virginia in 1704.
After the play had bombed and closed, the method was repurposed for Macbeth. Dennis was furious and reportedly was quoted angrily declaring, “They will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder!”
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