Sekirov Dictionary

win the battle, but lose the war

verb1

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To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal.
- 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.

forms

won the battle, but lost the war · winning the battle, but losing the war · wins the battle, but loses the war

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