Possible Clues:

• Take precedence over one given order to exit, say?
• Will be more important, that exit, by the sound of it
• Ought I somehow to capture bridge partnership's trump?
• Be more important or heavier than
• Ought I - we - improperly to predominate?
• Have more influence with old-fashioned method, say
• Excluded method said to tip scales in one' s favour
• Sounds as if it has more importance than the exit
• Override unfashionable fashion, so to speak
• Of more importance than the exit, by the sound of it