strong point

"Oh, indeed!" said Miss Blish, rather blankly, for French was not her strong point by any means.

I said I could not deny that this was a strong point. I said it

That's Ponta's strong point. He's a wild man, with an kinds of punches,--a whirlwind,-- and he gets his man in the first rounds.

Idling always has been my strong point. I take no credit to myself in the matter--it is a gift.

When most of the Subalterns sat upon him with sofa-cushions to find out why he had not said that acting was his strong point, he answered very quietly:--"I don't think you ever asked me.

Porthos didn't understand any too clearly; but then we know that understanding was not his strong point. "You say, then," he continued, "that the Count de Rochefort spoke of me to the cardinal?"

"No; though perhaps wisdom is not his strong point, but rather affection and sincerity.

Here the author describes minutely everything belonging to Don Diego's mansion, putting before us in his picture the whole contents of a rich gentleman-farmer's house; but the translator of the history thought it best to pass over these and other details of the same sort in silence, as they are not in harmony with the main purpose of the story, the strong point of which is truth rather than dull digressions.

Argument was not his strong point, but holding fast to his opinion certainly was.

Jo's one strong point was the fruit, for she had sugared it well, and had a pitcher of rich cream to eat with it.

Wilfred Bohun did not smile, for humour was never his strong point. But he nodded rather eagerly, being only too ready to explain the Gothic splendours to someone more likely to be sympathetic than the Presbyterian blacksmith or the atheist cobbler.

I had, however, one rather strong point. I possessed the gift of dismissing unpleasant considerations, not intimately connected with the passing moment, entirely from my mind.