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long suit

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long suit
n.
1. Games The suit in which a player holds the most cards in a given hand.
2. The personal quality or talent that is one's strongest asset.

long suit
n
1. (Group Games / Card Games)
a.  the longest suit in a hand of cards
b.  a holding of four or more cards of a suit
2. Informal an outstanding advantage, personal quality, or talent
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.long suitlong suit - in a hand, the suit having the most cards
aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
deal, hand - the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time; "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand"
strong suit - a long suit including high cards
2.long suitlong suit - an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte"
asset, plus - a useful or valuable quality
green fingers, green thumb - a special ability to make plants grow


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In this press, the papers in a long, long suit, which accumulated for years, were deposited.
Upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice, his majesty desired to be satisfied in several points: and this I was the better able to do, having been formerly almost ruined by a long suit in chancery, which was decreed for me with costs.
 
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