How do you say “Steal someone's thunder” in German?

The English idiom 'steal someone's thunder' originates from an 18th-century playwright whose proprietary sound-effects device was stolen and used in another production. In modern English, it specifically denotes ruining someone else's big moment or taking credit for their ideas by preempting them.

German lacks a direct meteorological counterpart and instead relies primarily on 'jemandem die Schau stehlen' (or the modern loan variant 'jemandem die Show stehlen'). While this phrase parallels 'to steal the show', in everyday German it is used broadly enough to cover both outshining someone and robbing them of their rightful moment in the spotlight. When the focus is strictly on preempting an announcement or neutralizing someone's momentum, 'jemandem den Wind aus den Segeln nehmen' is often the better contextual choice.