win the battle, but lose the war

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

動詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal.

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If we focus only on short-term profits, we might win the battle, but lose the war.

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意味（1）

(idiomatic) 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.

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win the battle （ canonical ）

but lose the war （ canonical ）

wins the battle （ present singular third-person ）

winning the battle （ participle present ）

won the battle （ participle past ）

won the battle （ past ）