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Idioms and Phrases

Imitate or do as someone else has done, as in Bill decided to leave for the rest of the day, and Mary followed suit . This term comes from card games in which one must play a card from the same suit as the one led. [Mid-1800s]
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Example Sentences

Undefeated Harvard, which had three games left, including its finale with Yale, did not follow suit.

One purported ISIS fighter from Canada praised Rouleau and encouraged others to follow suit with violence.

Mitchell and others favoring charters pushed for North Carolina lawmakers to follow suit.

At the meeting, Power commended the two for “leading the charge” and urged others to follow suit.

When she refused, he then demanded a male employee follow suit before simulating “an oral sex act with him.”

The ladies retire, and after a quiet smoke by the roaring hall-fire the gentlemen follow suit.

She is extremely impulsive and confidential, and others follow suit if they are with her.

Whereupon Machanidas was constrained to follow suit by sending his Tarentines forward also.

Half the duke's tenants have flown the place already, and the other half are getting ready to follow suit.

At least, in the Diplomatic Circles of mankind;—if haply the Populations will follow suit!

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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