pick one's battles
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pick one's battles (third-person singular simple present picks one's battles, present participle picking one's battles, simple past and past participle picked one's battles)
- (idiomatic) To involve oneself in disputes only if one is likely to win.
- (idiomatic) To take a stand for a cause only if it is truly important enough to be worth the costs.
Translations[edit]
to only involve oneself in disputes that one is likely to win
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to only take a stand for a cause that is truly important to one