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scene-stealer

[ seen-stee-ler ]

noun

  1. a performer in a play, motion picture, etc., who by charm, talent, or artifice, draws most of the audience's attention, often away from the leading performers.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of scene-stealer1

First recorded in 1945–50
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She’s one of the best features in a smallish role in “Migration” and she’s an artful scene-stealer in “Panda 4.”

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Olsen: You kind of had this niche of these really captivating, intriguing supporting roles and I’ve heard you say that you don’t like the phrase scene-stealer.

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Braugher, who died on Monday at age 61, became a breakout scene-stealer in this series as Frank Pembleton, a Baltimore detective who acted as the squad’s frustrated moral center.

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The scene-stealer wasn’t initially conceived as an adorably round, pantomime character.

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It was not even who might wrest voter attention back from the canniest scene-stealer in American political life.

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