Cooking was not exactly her forte.
Synonym
strong point UK
Meaning of forte in English
(Definition of forte from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
forte | American Dictionary
Singing is definitely her forte.
Examples of forte
forte
Forte might have further explored this relationship, or lack of relationship, between the military and the industrialists, and between the latter and the political parties.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
A second forte of this book is the theorydriven, evidence-based approach that the authors promote.
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The sixth thematic statement exactly replicates that of the opening and leads to an extended forte fugato.
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Throughout these numbers the singers stick to the middle of their range and rarely venture beyond a mezzo forte.
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Theme on the piccolo (forte), with xylorimba and six temple blocks, broken by harmonized theme (one chord per note) for clarinets and oboes staccato.
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The music was cast in an affirmative major key, played at a constant forte and the whole was devised as a single, unified sound.
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Upon their rebuilding he likely sold many to investors, because his forte was rebuilding.
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During the two solo episodes the strings provide an accompaniment typical of the solo concerto: written-out continuo chords (piano) alternating with short interjections in octaves (forte).
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The timbre of the natural piano was apparent throughout, with only a slight distortion and fizz at the beginning of each note for anything marked forte and above.
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Dynamic information will be expressed with standard notation, by piano and forte, and hairpins to indicate changes over the course of a sound object's envelope.
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The dynamics rise to a triple forte.
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Although knowledgeable about the activities of the party outside parliament this is not his forte and indeed just one page is devoted to constituency and municipal politics.
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Magma genesis is not the author's forte.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
I realise that adding up is not everybody's forte.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I tried to take maths seriously at school, but found that it was not quite my forte.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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