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an asset of special worth or utility
cooking is his forte - in a hand, the suit having the most cards
How To Use long suit In A Sentence
- Putting Psychology into easy terms, stopping to explain things I do not understand very well myself, struggling through the medium of a strange language, and trying to occidentalize the oriental mind has been a stiff proposition for one whose learning was never her long suit! The Lady of the Decoration
- This extra furlong suits and he will go well. The Sun
- Aces are also valuable when partner has a long suit. Times, Sunday Times
- In El Tresillo, as in many of the oldest card games, the numeral cards in the round suits (cups and coins) rank in the reverse order from the numeral cards in the long suits (swords and batons).
- The high rollers get comped mile-long suites, and other, softer perks, because they bring the big money to the casino and leave a lot of it there.
- Aces are also valuable when partner has a long suit. Times, Sunday Times
- She's great at writing poetry, but putting it to music is not her long suit.
- She's great at writing poetry, but putting it to music is not her long suit.
- _ -- In a no-trump declaration the main object is to bring in a long suit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
- This strategy suits hands which look to be strong in honour cards or have a long suit that may be run through without ruffs by the opponent.
