"step on someone's lines" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: step on lines [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|en|verb|head=step on (someone's) lines}} step on (someone's) lines
  1. To interfere with someone's role, as in a performance, by interfering with their scripted or intended speech. Categories (topical): Theater Related terms: upstage
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          "text": "The person who introduced me stepped on my lines by giving a long summary, including all the good anecdotes.",
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          "ref": "1986, Carol Addison Takacs, Enjoy Your Gifted Child, page 51:",
          "text": "... interrupting often takes place when someone else in the group is telling a joke and the bright youngster blurts out the punch line — not because he has heard the joke before but because he sees what is coming and finds it funny. And so, out it tumbles and he has \"stepped on my lines\" and spoiled the joke for the teller.",
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          "text": "Mr. KYL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. […] do you want to take any additional testimony before we get to questioning? I have read the statements. / Mr. SKELTON. I think, as I understand it, I was told that the other gentlemen were here to answer questions. / Mr. KYL. Fine. I didn't want to step on your lines there, but I have read the statements and find them to be good and cooperative.",
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