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follow suit
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]Example Sentences
Gittens is not there yet, but he is marking our cards as a player who could yet follow suit.
Other campaigners want the rest of the UK to follow suit.
Asked whether the UK would follow suit, Kyle said "everything is on the table with me", but said he wanted to see more evidence first.
The company discontinued mineral-based talc in North America in 2020 - and followed suit in the UK last year - replacing it with cornstarch.
The communities minister criticised the government for taking the decision, but said Northern Ireland would have to 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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