Slang definitions & phrases for long suit, someone's
long suit, someone's
noun phrase
Someone's best gift or quality; forte; strong point: His gift of gab is his long suit. He can call a bird off a tree
[1895+; fr card-playing, ''suit in which you hold originally more than three cards,'' found by 1876]
The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D. Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers. Cite This Source
