LONG SUIT • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Long suit

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/lɔŋ sut/ Listen

Long suit

noun

In a hand, the suit having the most cards.

An asset of special worth or utility. Synonyms: forte, metier, speciality, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit.

See more definitions of Long suit...

See images of 'Long suit'

Antonyms of 'Long suit'

Etymology of 'Long suit'

Share |

"Long suit" Quotes from Famous Books

... grateful about Eleanor; but sometimes gratitude can be carried altogether too far, even if you are an orphan, and were brought up by hand. Eleanor was thirty-four if a day—a nice enough woman, of course, and college bred, and cultivated, and clever—but her long suit wasn't good looks. She was tall and bony; worshipped genius and all that; ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) • Various

... recollection of this little episode haunted him. So much pre-occupied was he at the club that he actually played out the thirteenth trump upon his partner's long suit and so sacrificed the game—being the first and only time that he was ever known to throw away a point. He told Von Baumser all about ...

— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... of the things I'm up against," she exclaimed in a low voice. "That fellow is a regular agitator. Talking is his long suit. Why, he didn't even know how to throw a bowline when he hit in here, flat broke and down on his uppers. I've taught him all he knows. And now he's trying to start something. If men weren't so scarce I'd can ...

— El Diablo • Brayton Norton

... me," the major filled in the pause, "that you are a trifle short on a woman's long suit—patience. Now in the case of David Kildare, you don't want to give him one moment of tortoise speed but must keep him pacing with the hare entirely. Remember the result ...

— Andrew the Glad • Maria Thompson Daviess

... on a minute, Puddy,—er, I mean Your Lordship. I don't mind stalling awhile before I begin pulling off my historic stunts, as this detective business is only a graft anyhow. But as my long suit has always been to criticize the regular police force, I must ask you why in thunder those constables from the village aren't here on guard, considering that three successive thefts have occurred here in the same day," remonstrated ...

— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry