| 单词 | lose-win-the-battle-win-lose-the-war |
| 释义 | lose/win the battle, win/lose the war to lose the battle but win the war or to lose the battle but win the war phrase See full dictionary entry for battleIf you say that someone has lost the battle, but won the war, you mean that although they have been defeated in a small conflict they have won a larger, more important one of which it was a part. If you say that someone has won the battle but lost the war, you mean that they have won the small conflict but lost the larger one. The strikers may have won the battle, but they lost the war. Definition of 'lose/win the battle, win/lose the war to lose the battle but win the war' |
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