suit down to the ground

verb

To suit perfectly.

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Meanings

verbsuit down to the ground (third-person singular simple present suits down to the ground, present participle suiting down to the ground, simple past and past participle suited down to the ground)

present singular third person suits down to the ground · participle present suiting down to the ground · participle past suited down to the ground · past suited down to the ground

  1. idiomatictransitiveTo suit perfectly.

    Good! I don't mind beginning all over again. That suits me right down to the ground.

    c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 3
    1 more example

    The routines at Lochranza Court suited her down to the ground and she loved her friends.

    2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 117
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