follow suit

1. 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

Nationalisation would be another possibility, as in Bulgaria, but Serbia has been reluctant to follow suit, in large part due to its longstanding friendship with Russia.

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Other schools didn’t follow suit, creating uneven comparisons for graduates.

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Police declared a high alert, and neighbouring states quickly followed suit.

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The West—especially Europe—should abandon its self-imposed energy restrictions and follow suit.

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They followed noise, hospitality, and instinct and casually kept tabs on a drunk Cohn, and we follow suit.

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