Meanings
How to pronounce "win the battle, but lose the war":
AU
To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal.
Example: "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."
A-Z Proximities
willow in the windwin backwin by a nosewin one for the Gipperwin over win the battle, but lose the war
wind at one's backwind back the clockwind downwind offwin the day