win the battle, but lose the war

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal. idiomatic
    — By turning in that one assignment, you may have won the battle, but you never turned anything else in, so in the end you lost the war.

词形变化

wins the battle, but loses the war present,singular,third-person winning the battle, but losing the war participle,present won the battle, but lost the war participle,past won the battle, but lost the war past
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