Question

He had no intention of letting the Foreign Secretary steal any of his blunder .

Q: Answer-He had no intention of letting the Foreign Secretary steal any of his blunder.

The correct expression is steal somebodys thunder. If you steal someones thunder, you take the attention away from them, usually to your own advantage. He had no intention of letting the Foreign Secretary steal any of his thunder .

In each question below, a sentence is given with an idiom/phrase printed in bold type. That part may contain a grammatical error. Each sentence is followed by four alternatives. Find out which option should replace the phrase/idiom given in bold to correct the error, if there is any, and to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark 5) as the answer.

A steal any of his rain

B steal any of his lightening

C steal any of his thunder

D steal any of his weather

E No correction required

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