a. Good is an adjective. The adverb is well
1. use well (not good) with past participles (dressed/ known etc.): well-dressed, well-educated
2. well is also an adjective with the meaning 'in good health'
b. fast/hard/late are both adjectives and adverbs (e.g. Jay is a hard worker. Jay works hard. (not works hardly)
1. Lately = recently (e.g. have you seen BK lately?)
c. Hardly + very little, almost not. (e.g. We've only met once or twice. We hardly know each other)
1. can use hardly + any/ anybody/ anyone/ anything/ anywhere (e.g. How much money have you got? Hardly any. (very little, almost none)
2. I can hardly do something = it's very difficult for me, almost impossible.
3. Hardly ever = almost never
4. Hardly also means 'certainly not'
Idiom 365
Steal Someone's Thunder: to take the credit for something someone else did.
Example: You have to stop stealing my thunder! You do it first and you always get the recognition!