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  • 51suit to a t — • to a t • fit to a t • suit to a t Digest 20/2002 perfectly; exactly Margie tried on the dress in the store and looked at herself in the mirror. The dress suited her to a T. That new suit fits you to a T …

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  • 52suit up — phrasal verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms suit up : present tense I/you/we/they suit up he/she/it suits up present participle suiting up past tense suited up past participle suited up American to get ready for an activity by putting on a… …

    English dictionary

  • 53suit up — {v. phr.} To don a uniform or sports outfit. * /The veterans like to suit up for the Fourth of July parade./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 54suit up — {v. phr.} To don a uniform or sports outfit. * /The veterans like to suit up for the Fourth of July parade./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 55suit up — verb a) To don a protective suit, such as a spacesuit. Each day for three weeks they suited up and went out to the module and fed it. b) To clothe, to put clothes on (someone) …

    Wiktionary

  • 56Suit — The obligatory attendance at his lord s court by a tenant. This was known as suit of court …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 57suit — See suit, suite …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 58Suit — (derogatory) person wearing a business suit …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 59suit — I Australian Slang (derogatory) person wearing a business suit II Mawdesley Glossary to please, to fit or match a person ie. a hat or dress …

    English dialects glossary

  • 60suit — [13] As in the case of its first cousins sect and set, the etymological notion underlying suit is ‘following’. It comes via Anglo Norman siute from Vulgar Latin *sequita, a noun use of the feminine past participle of *sequere ‘follow’, which in… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins