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Suit (1 syl.)

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To follow suit. To follow the leader; to do as those do who are taken as your exemplars. The term is from games of cards.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Suit of Dittos (A)
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