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suit oneself
Idioms and Phrases
Do as one pleases, as in We had expected you, but if you don't want to come, suit yourself . This idiom, which uses suit in the sense of “be agreeable or convenient,” is often put as an imperative. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
That one must suit oneself in life is a very popular rule of wisdom.
This form of invention consists neither of idealizing the external world, nor reproducing it with the minuteness of realism, but remaking the universe to suit oneself, without taking into account natural laws, and despising the impossible: it is a liberated realism.
"It may not be easy for me to visit Drumtochty often, for you know there has been a change … in our circumstances, and one must suit oneself to it."
One would say that to dress to suit oneself would be more becoming to men and women.
Well, one could not change either one’s own little circle of fate, or the universe, just to suit oneself; one could only hope for the best, while there was still room for hope, and cultivate that soldier-spirit, undaunted even in a losing fight.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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