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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
The score follows suit, with Curtis Moore’s music and Amanda Green’s lyrics setting up the period flavor only to bust out in Broadway-style pop, rock and even hip-hop.
Many rightwing supporters – who purport to be guided by Christianity – have followed suit and falsely painted Ukraine as the aggressor.
I clumsily followed suit and afterward experienced a level of joy that I never had before.
But drivers still remain divided about whether the reduced limit was necessary, with some admitting to frequently breaking the limit, while others said the rest of the UK should follow suit.
Meanwhile, the simple joys of a Friday night chippy tea has followed 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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