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

“I recognize there’s a lot of psychobabble about our relationship, and that’s not exactly our long suit in this family,” Mr. Bush said.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2014

Strategy was not the long suit of THQ.

From Chicago Tribune • Aug. 18, 2013

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