long suit

Example Sentences

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The reality, though, is that I did it because butting out is not my long suit.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022

Transparency about the building plan is not the museum’s long suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2019

Strategy was not the long suit of THQ.

From Chicago Tribune • Aug. 18, 2013

As West, on lead against three no-trump, would you lead the spade jack because your partner bid that suit, or the club six from your own long suit?

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2011

Rachel and Adah were assigned any number of hope-chest projects to work on, but the domestic arena was never my long suit, so I was to focus on a single, big project: a cross-stitch tablecloth.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver