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

How did the anger of an 18th-Century playwright give us the idiom stole my thunder? We look at how one mans 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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