Fit

You have nothing to say about it. I'll do exactly as I see fit.

Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked?

He had drunk more than was fit for him, and he was singing some light song, when he saw approaching, as he said, the pale horse mentioned in the Revelation, with Death seated as the rider.

The rest we'll leave to be examined later, if we think fit;

Sergeant Schlock has no horse, no armor, and no sword, but even the mightiest Mongol horse-warrior would see in him a fit heir.

survival of the fittest

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in.

Wading through history, he noted that some eugenicists believed that the “distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines,” and others would define a person as “feeble-minded.”

You don't have to be a good climber for Kilimanjaro, but you do have to be fit.

I think the girl working in the office is fit.

Got my hands down her jeans and I nearly lost half my arm / But after ten pints, she looked quite fit

I think you are really fit / You're fit but my gosh don't you know it.

I said I'd rather be with your friends, mate, cos they are much fitter.

So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel.

It fits the purpose.

The speaker should be certain that his subject fits the occasion.

Ten clowns fit in the car, but not a hundred.

The elevator can fit up to 10 people.

The small shirt doesn't fit me, so I'll buy the medium size.

If I lose a few kilos, the gorgeous wedding dress might fit me.

I know the pieces fit / 'Cause I watched them fall away

Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it... / I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door. / There was plenty of room on the raft. / I know. I know, I know.

I wanted to borrow my little sister's jeans, but they didn't fit.

That plug fit into the other socket, but it won't go in this one.

I want to fit the drapes to the windows.

I had a suit fitted by the tailor.

These definitions fit most of the usage.

Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.

The regression program fit a line to the data.

Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later.

The chandler will fit us with provisions for a month.

I’m fitting the ship for a summer sail home.

I’m fitting to go home and sleep.

'I am fitting to go to South Hadley Seminary [as Mount Holyoke was known], and expect if my health is good to enter that institution a year from next fall', she confided to Abiah.

Thirty years ago, if a girl wished for training, there was none to be had. I can truly say there was no training to be had to fit a woman thoroughly for any life whatever.

Nor fits it to prolong the heav'nly feast.

The paint, the fabrics, the rugs all fit.

This shirt is a bad fit.

Since he put on weight, his jeans have been a tight fit.

It's hard to get a good fit using second-hand parts.

The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.

During the auction, it is often a partnership's goal to find an eight-card major suit fit.

Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many fits.

My grandfather died after having a fit.

He had a laughing fit which lasted more than ten minutes.

She had a fit and threw all of his clothes out through the window.

He threw a fit (of temper) when his car broke down.

A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips from 1997.

A spokesman said: "It is believed they (the dogs) got into the lake and drank from it. They came out and started fitting. Shortly after that three of them died and vets are attempting to resuscitate the other one."

There wonst was two cats in Kilkenny; / And aich thought there was one cat too many. / So they quarrelled and fit; / And they scratched, and they bit; / Till, excepting their tails / And some scraps of their nails, / Instead of two cats there wan't any.

c. 19th century, unknown author, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down

He didn't just set around and try to out sweettalk^([sic]) somebody; he got out and out-fit somebody. He wouldn't be blowing when he told his boys how he fit for the woman he got.

How do you like the fit?

Piker had already shown off his “cozy-ass ’fit” (sweatpants with kitschy bald eagles, a custom pair of platform Crocs), and recounted his experience the previous night at the Streamer Awards, a red-carpet event honoring A-listers on Twitch—the popular live-streaming site where he is one of the biggest stars, and the only prominent leftist.