steal a bye Definition

steal
verb stole (past tense), stolen (past participle), stealing (present participle)

tr & intr
1. To take away (another person's property) without permission or legal right, especially secretly.

Thesaurus: filch, thieve, loot, rob, purloin, embezzle, rifle, poach, swindle, pillage, pilfer; Antonym: return.
2. To obtain something by cleverness or trickery.

Example: steal a kiss
3. To fraudulently present (another person's work, ideas, etc) as one's own.
intr
4. To go stealthily.

Example: stole down to the basement

noun

colloq:
1. A bargain; something that can be easily obtained.

Example: The silk shirt was a steal at £25
(N Amer, especially US)
2. An act of stealing.

Idiom: steal a bye

To score a run without the batsman having touched the ball with either his bat or hand.

Idiom: steal a march on someone

To gain some kind of advantage over them, especially in a surreptitious or underhand way.

Idiom: steal someone's thunder

To present or use someone else's idea, plan, etc as one's own, thereby diverting attention from them and then wallow in the ensuing praise, adulation, etc.

Idiom: steal the show

To attract the most applause, attention, publicity, admiration, etc.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon stelan.

Phrasal Verb: steal away

To make off without being seen.

Phrasal Verb: steal over someone

To pervade them; to overcome them.
Example: Tiredness stole over her