long suit

How To Use long suit In A Sentence

• This strategy suits hands which look to be strong in honour cards or have a long suit that may be run through without ruffs by the opponent.
• I can't imagine myself keeping quiet holding that nice shapely West hand with all the points in the long suits. Times, Sunday Times
• She's great at writing poetry, but putting it to music is not her long suit.
• Partner will only remove the double when he has a very weak hand (0-4 pts) and a long suit. Times, Sunday Times
• I can't imagine myself keeping quiet holding that nice shapely West hand with all the points in the long suits. Times, Sunday Times
• Usually, therefore, defense starts with one defender cashing a long suit, hoping that his partner will become void in the suit and be able to discard in another suit, or simply to pave the way for an attack in that same suit.
• I will so bedizen your virile, though somewhat crassly practical gifts ---- Why, women are my long suit. Free Air
• Aces are also valuable when partner has a long suit. Times, Sunday Times
• Putting Psychology into easy terms, stopping to explain things I do not understand very well myself, struggling through the medium of a strange language, and trying to occidentalize the oriental mind has been a stiff proposition for one whose learning was never her long suit! The Lady of the Decoration
• _ -- In a no-trump declaration the main object is to bring in a long suit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"