To follow suit

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(Card Playing)	to play a card of the same suit as the leading card; hence, colloquially, to follow an example set.
(Card Playing)	See under Follow, v. t.
	To mimic the action of another person; to perform an action similar to what has preceded; as, when she walked in, John left the room and his wife followed suit.
(Card Playing)	the suit{8} of which a player has the largest number of cards in his hand; as, his long suit was clubs, but his partner insisted on making hearts trumps..
	that quality or capability which is a person's best asset; as, we could see from the mess in his room that neatness was not his long suit.
	same as long suit, (b). - Bill Disbrow (basketball coach) 1998.

See also: Follow Suit Suit Suit Suit Suit

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The other Growleywogs were not slow to follow suit, and even before they had finished drinking the Chief of the Whimsies and his people came to push them away, while they one and all cast off their false heads that they might slake their thirst at the fountain.

The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

Pullet, with unusual vigor, "for she hasn't got the linen to follow suit wi' mine, I can tell you.

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context

Whereupon cards followed, with aunt Kimble's annual failure to follow suit, and uncle Kimble's irascibility concerning the odd trick which was rarely explicable to him, when it was not on his side, without a general visitation of tricks to see that they were formed on sound principles: the whole being accompanied by a strong steaming odour of spirits-and-water.

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