Idiom meaning to take credit for another person's idea or…

Idiom meaning to take credit for another person's idea or to spoil their moment by acting first. It is traced to the English critic and playwright John Dennis, who devised a new method of producing storm sounds for his play Appius and Virginia in 1709. The play itself soon closed, but he later heard his sound effect used in Macbeth and reportedly complained bitterly that they had taken his invention.

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