Suit

A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.

Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.

You had an army / Of suits behind you

Two smartly dressed suits walked up to the doctor. "Are you alright Dr. La Perouse?"

Suits didn't wear suits any more—they wore Tibetan prayer beads coiled around their wrists. But they slithered in a suitlike way.

If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.

Tam[burlaine]. Are you the wittie King of Perſea? Myc[etes]. I marrie am I: haue you any ſute to me? Tam[burlaine]. I woulde intreate you to ſpeake but three wiſe wordes.

Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end.

Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne.

To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences.

Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.

"You must wear these to-day, my dear child," said Lord Norbourne, as, entering the dressing-room of his daughter, he laid a suit of pearls on her table

but let your owne Diſcretion be your Tutor: Sute the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action,

The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.

That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?

The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.

Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.

c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.

“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

I'm going where the sun keeps shinin' […] / Going where the weather suits my clothes

So went he suited to his watery tomb.

will build to suit   [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]

He is well suited with his place.

My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much.

When's it suit you for me to call?

This arrangement suited everybody - right up until the moment that it suddenly didn't, when unions were able to point a loaded gun at management's head in any disputes.

The place itself was suiting to his care.

Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.