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
