suit down to the ground

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suit down to the ground (third-person singular simple present suits down to the ground, present participle suiting down to the ground, simple past and past participle suited down to the ground)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To suit perfectly.
   • 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:

     Good! I don't mind beginning all over again. That suits me right down to the ground.

   • 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 117:

     The routines at Lochranza Court suited her down to the ground and she loved her friends.

See also

• fit like a glove