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

After East rebid three clubs, saying that he was happy to play there if that was his partner’s long suit, South intervened with three hearts, which was passed out.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 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