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单词 long suit
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long suit

noun
1(In bridge or whist) a holding of several cards of one suit in a hand, typically 5 or more out of the 13.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....
  • For example, this third hand could be used to discard weaker cards, or to stack with a long suit in the hope that suit comes up trumps.
  • This method of signalling allows you to preserve a long suit and discard unwanted single cards.
2 [usually with negative] (one's long suit) One’s outstanding personal quality or achievement: tact was not his long suit...
  • It's not my long suit (not even my short suit), although the few abstract pictures of dinosaur-like shapes on a cave wall he documents would seem to do little to disprove the theory of evolution as he claims.
  • The less sure-footed his receivers became, the more Manning had to buy time by improvisation, never his long suit.
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