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follow suit to do the same as someone else has just done. If other companies lower their prices, we shall have to follow suit. follow suit to do the same as someone else has just done. If other stores lower their prices, we'll have to follow suit. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of follow suit (= to play a card of the same type as someone else just played in a card game) |
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The other Growleywogs were not slow to follow suit, and even before they had finished drinking the Chief of the Whimsies and his people came to push them away, while they one and all cast off their false heads that they might slake their thirst at the fountain. Gabriel had played his trump; and those of us who could not follow suit were arraigned for examination. Whereupon cards followed, with aunt Kimble's annual failure to follow suit, and uncle Kimble's irascibility concerning the odd trick which was rarely explicable to him, when it was not on his side, without a general visitation of tricks to see that they were formed on sound principles: the whole being accompanied by a strong steaming odour of spirits-and-water. |
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