short suit

In this game, having a short suit can be bad news.

The advantage to the system is the power of the short suit.

But the heart jack, in the short suit, would be a golden card.

Some use it as a splinter to show a short suit with no major.

This suggested that West held a short suit somewhere, probably in diamonds.

But the short suit may also be a practical response to the miniskirt.

The French were using the canapé system, in which a short suit is bid first.

First, you can add points for short suits.

Three no-trump showed the values for four spades and a short suit.

Three no-trump will be preferable usually only if the short suit is opposite a strong holding.

One theory is that the double calls for a short suit lead since the doubler must have length somewhere.

On the other hand, honors in the short suits decreases the value of the hand.

Since the 10 and eight of spades were visible in the dummy, it was clear that West had led from a short suit.

But that suit is ragged, and most of the honors lie in a short suit.

She’s a 9-month-old Terrier mix in a cute little short suit of black and tan.

A good, summery substitute for your standard trousers/top combo could be a short suit.

Bigelow is wearing a short suit of red Tabby.

It is always risky to balance when the balancer has an unbid short suit.

With summer's short suits now in mothballs, designers still have plenty of leg looks up their sleeves.

These ain’t the short suit, after all.

Summer is coming and pastel-coloured super-short short suits can be very unforgiving!

The instinct to draw trumps, with no short suit in the dummy, must then be resisted.

A short suit in the West hand was unlikely in view of the failure to raise spades.

Other 1-bids are made in strict accordance with canapé principle (shorter suit first).

It usually pays to lead partner's shorter suit.