stroke of business

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Noun

stroke of business (plural strokes of business)

1. (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."