live to fight another day
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
live to fight another day (third-person singular simple present lives to fight another day, present participle living to fight another day, simple past and past participle lived to fight another day)
- To persist despite a failure or difficulty.
Further reading edit
- “live to fight another day”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “live to fight another day”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “live to fight/see another day” (US) / “live to fight/see another day” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.