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suit down to the ground en · VERB
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(idiomatic, transitive) To suit perfectly.
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: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:
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fit like a glove