long game

noun

1. the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit shots, especially drives, for distance.

2. a card game in which all cards in the pack are dealt before play.

Example Sentences

If they lacked the foresight to understand Roberts’s patient long game, or missed his invitation for another locality to challenge preclearance — this time, one that the court could not simply bail out — one person most certainly did: Edward Blum, the master matchmaker who found the Texas litigants, and would soon bring Shelby County to the court’s attention.

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"I know we played a long game, but this team never gave up."

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“It’s a little bit of the long game here,” he said.

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Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was trying to play the long game Monday night.

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“I hate to say this, but you know, in terms of playing the long game, the Republicans have been better than the Democrats,” she said.

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