stroke of business
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stroke of business (plural strokes of business)
- (idiomatic, archaic) (of business or trade) a large or considerable amount
- 1898, Charles Spurgeon, The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon: 1834-1854[1]:
- "How my father came to hear of this little stroke of business I never knew, but some little bird or other whistled it to him, and he was very soon down upon me in right earnest."