Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä

Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.

Määritelmät

Verbit

  1. (idiomatic) To suddenly lose a contest one seemed very likely to win, especially through mistakes or bad judgment.

Esimerkit

  • ... since the fall of communism, the West has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and with disastrous results.
  • 2010, Peter Roebuck. "Tourists snatch defeat from jaws of victory," Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, New South Wales). 8 January 2010.
  • 2009, "Teenagers snatch defeat from the jaws of victory," Londonderry Sentinal (Londonderry, Northern Ireland). 22 October 2009.
  • 2008, Victor Davis Hanson, "Snatching Defeat from the jaws of victory," National Review (New York, New York). 31 January 2008.
  • 2005, William Kristol, "Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?" The Weekly Standard (Washington, D.C.). 6 September 2005.
  • 1999, Abraham Lincoln removed Gen. Ambrose Burnside from command after the Battle of Fredricksbrug (11-15 December 1862), describing his actions as snatching defeat from the jaws of victory -- Janis Herbert, The Civil War for Kids. Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Review Press, p. 68.
  • 1999, Daniel N. Nelson, "Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory," Journal of the Atomic Scientists (Chicago, Illinois). October 1992.
  • 1874, Illinois sports pages, "but when they [the Whitesocks baseball team] snatch defeat from the jaws of victory there can be little sympathy for their deserved misfortune." (Quoteinvestigator)

Luokat