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   Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   AK> "He thinks we need a miracle," Sticky said in a bleak   
   AK> voice."  "Well, optimism has never been his strong   
   AK> suit," said Kate.   
      
   I think you have an extra quote there!   
      
   AK> "Suit" -- is it pertain to playing cards?   
      
   You ask whether the term pertains, or is pertinent, to card   
   games.  I think `suit' there denotes general perseverence in   
   an effort, but the dict.org begs to differ:   
      
   long suit   
       (a) (Card Playing) the suit[8] of which a player has the   
           largest number of cards in his hand; as, his long   
           suit was clubs, but his partner insisted on making   
           hearts trumps.. Hence: [fig.] that quality or   
           capability which is a person's best asset; as, we   
           could see from the mess in his room that neatness was   
           not his long suit.   
      
   strong suit same as long suit,   
       (b) . "I think our strong suit is that we can score from   
           both the perimeter and the post." --Bill Disbrow   
           (basketball coach) 1998. "Rigid ideological   
           consistency has never been a strong suit of the Whole   
           Earth Catalogue." --Bruce Sterling (The Hacker   
           Crackdown, 1994)   
           [1913 Webster +PJC]   
      
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