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)

  1. (idiomatic) To involve oneself in disputes only if one is likely to win.
  2. (idiomatic) To take a stand for a cause only if it is truly important enough to be worth the costs.

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