Meant the other suit, grapho--the suit of things to be repaired.

Actually, you meant the 4 card suit, Wordwind, not the lawsuit and not the suit in need of amendment.

Nor were you thinking of the lover's suit which too often, like a suit first seen on a mannequin, falls short of expectations.

No, you were thinking of the 4 card suit, Wordwind, and the rules of Bridge which prescribe that each player follow suit.

Which raises another question not unrelated to the subject of the "under the radar" thread. How many expressions in common use, aptly employed by virtually everyone in everyday speech, have a provenance which is totally lost on the people who use them?

For instance, how many people who use the expression "follow suit" have ever played Bridge?

And, more important, how has this liberation from the original idea which inspired the expression taken human ingenuity to heights, and into directions, not possible absent the untethering?

How many innovations were spawned by an incomplete or incorrect understanding of the science which spawned them, or by the possibilities implicit in the metaphoric use of a single word, or even by a mispronunciation, or a typo, which caused some listener or reader to think hard on the unintended puzzlement and glimpse something new and serendipitous.

This takes us all the way back to Amemeba's "Cro-magnon" theory of words.

Perhaps Amemeba meant that words facilitate, like tools, and certainly that is true, but words also have the power to project things otherwise beyond understanding, purposefully and adroitly, in the hands of a poet, but, likely as often, without glamor or glory, by pure happenstance.