Steal One’s Thunder 1100 Words You need Week 14

Steal One's Thunder 1100 Words Steal One's Thunder 1100 Words to block your success in calling someone's attention or doing something in particular by overtaking or forestalling you, prevent or hinder someone from doing something by acting on it in advance, preempt, preclude, avert, obviate, thwart: For centuries, theatre productions tried to find a good method to produce the sound of thunder. In 1704, an unsuccessful playwright, John Dennis, invented a new method of creating the sound of thunder for his play, Appius and Virginia. The play flopped and was closed down but shortly afterwards, a production of Macbeth started ...