"win the battle, but lose the war" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wins the battle, but loses the war",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "winning the battle, but losing the war",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "won the battle, but lost the war",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "won the battle, but lost the war",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "win<,,won> the battle, but lose<,,lost> the war"
      },
      "expansion": "win the battle, but lose the war (third-person singular simple present wins the battle, but loses the war, present participle winning the battle, but losing the war, simple past and past participle won the battle, but lost the war)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal."
      ],
      "id": "en-win_the_battle,_but_lose_the_war-en-verb-ff5Oc2E5",
      "links": [
        [
          "portion",
          "portion#English"
        ],
        [
          "fail",
          "fail#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "achieve a portion of a goal",
          "word": "voittaa taistelu, mutta hävitä koko sota"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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    }
  ],
  "word": "win the battle, but lose the war"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wins the battle, but loses the war",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "winning the battle, but losing the war",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "won the battle, but lost the war",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "won the battle, but lost the war",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "win<,,won> the battle, but lose<,,lost> the war"
      },
      "expansion": "win the battle, but lose the war (third-person singular simple present wins the battle, but loses the war, present participle winning the battle, but losing the war, simple past and past participle won the battle, but lost the war)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Terms with Finnish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "portion",
          "portion#English"
        ],
        [
          "fail",
          "fail#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "achieve a portion of a goal",
      "word": "voittaa taistelu, mutta hävitä koko sota"
    }
  ],
  "word": "win the battle, but lose the war"
}