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follow suit

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follow suit
to follow in the same pattern; to follow someone else's example. (From card games.) Mary went to work for a bank, and Jane followed suit. Now they are both head cashiers. The Smiths went out to dinner, but the Browns didn't follow suit. They stayed home.
See also: follow, suit
follow suit
to do the same as someone else has just done
Usage notes: If you follow suit when you are playing a card game, you put down a card with the same type of symbol on it as the card put down by the person before you.
If other companies lower their prices, we shall have to follow suit.
See also: 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)
See also: follow, suit
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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.
The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
Gabriel had played his trump; and those of us who could not follow suit were arraigned for examination.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
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.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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