Meanings of hog the limelight in English

It can't have been easy for him to let someone else hog the limelight.

Yet it is the forwards' toils that hog the limelight.

He resisted the impulse to hog the limelight and I'm sure it killed him.

Employees who worked with him or reported to him also told Reuters he tends to hog the limelight.

Let the leader go and sit in the audience with everybody else, instead of trying to hog the limelight.

He continues to hog the limelight via TV, Twitter and angry, raucous rallies built on the cult of personality.

Queensland's Melbourne-based stars hog the limelight, and deservedly so, but it means we can often overlook others who play an instrumental role in victory.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Harry Redknapp skulks at the rear while John Barnes and Robbie Fowler hog the limelight in Harry's Heroes: The Full English.

Some complain that regulars hog the limelight, so you should think twice before embarrassing yourself on stage here lest you fancy the Simon Cowell treatment.

Centre-halves are supposed to be dour and dogged and should not hog the limelight to this extent, but the unpredictability he offers was always entrancing.

They're brilliant impressionists and would be duelling away, hogging the limelight.

But it was strikers in absentia who hogged the limelight.

Jacko (as he would think right and proper) hogs the limelight.

On both sides, men who have taken the floor, to the streets, hogged the limelight.

For the first month of the trial, Roux hogged the limelight as he rattled state witnesses.

Professional golfers have been heaping criticism on Tiger Woods' former caddie, Steve Williams for hogging the limelight.