تعريف lose-lose في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- Presenting two options both of which put one at a disadvantage: "a lose-lose proposition"
- lose-lose situation
- A no-win situation or less commonly a "lose-lose" situation, is one where a person has choices, but no choice leads to success. If an executioner offers the condemned the choice of dying by being hanged, shot, or poisoned, since all choices lead to death, the condemned is in a no-win situation. Simply put, this bleak situation is one where no matter what choice one makes, the result from choosing either one will be the same: nobody wins at all
- for the lose
- Something undesirable; an exclamation suggesting an unwanted result or condition
- lose
- Of a clock, to run slower than expected
It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.
- lose
- To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons
She lost her position when the company was taken over.
- lose
- To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer
Mission control lost the satellite as its signal died down.
- lose
- To fail to be the winner
Did you win this time? - No, I lost again.
- lose
- To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate
When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
- lose
- To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc). Often followed by out
We lost the match.
- lose
- To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident
He lost his spleen in a car wreck.
- lose
- To shed (weight); to reduce
I’ve lost five pounds this week.
- lose
- To have (a relative or friend) die
She lost all her sons in the war.
- lose count
- to forget the number of times that something has happened
I have lost count of the number of girls I have kissed.
- lose face
- To lose the respect of others, to be humiliated or experience public disgrace
- lose heart
- to despair, experience reduced morale
- lose it
- To be explosively angry; to lose one's temper
When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he just lost it.
- lose it
- To lose control of a situation
- lose one's cool
- To become upset or disconcerted; to lose one's temper
When things don't go your way, no matter how trivial, how do you react? Do you lose your cool and explode?.
- lose one's head
- To behave irrationally or to lose one's self-control, especially in a distressing situation
He never lost his head in a crisis, Mr. Mandela wrote of his comrade.
- lose one's lunch
- Vomit, throw up
- lose one's marbles
- To go crazy
Jimi's obsession with his guitar garnered him a nickname around Clarksville: Marbles. He was so named because people thought he had lost his marbles and was crazy as a result of his excessive practicing.
- lose one's mind
- To become mad, insane
- lose one's rag
- To become angry
Come on, everyone loses their rag occasionally. It can’t be that bad. ’.
- lose one's shirt
- To lose all of one's money; to go broke; to undergo financial ruin or disaster
Since nearly losing his shirt in a business deal a few years back, he investigates new opportunities more cautiously.
- lose one's shit
- To lose one's temper
- lose one's shit
- To have a sudden burst of emotion, regardless of the type of feeling
I watched Lady Gaga's Telephone video last night, and I lost my shit..
- lose one's temper
- to be explosively angry. To get very cross
When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he completely lost his temper.
- lose one's touch
- To lose one's special mastery of or knack for a particular skill or activity
They had more than 45 years in the business, but it was clear they never lost their touch.
- lose one's virginity
- To have sexual intercourse for the first time
- lose oneself in
- to be deeply occupied, focused or absorbed in someone or something
Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies.
- lose the number of one's mess
- to die, to perish
Shore folk think sailors are heartless, and that when a poor chap is lost overboard, they only say that So-and-so has lost the number of his mess! and, after having an auction over his kit in the fo'c's'le, then dismiss him from their memory! — J.C. Hutcheson, Fritz and Eric, 1880.
- lose the plot
- To cease to be behaving in a predictable and/or rational manner
- lose the plot
- To have one's results decline severely in quality or suddenly fall below an acceptable standard, especially when compared to past excellence
- lose touch
- To cease to be familiar with someone or something or to cease to communicate or have contact
Suddenly, friends found me again that I had lost touch with years ago.
- lose track
- To forget one's train of thought or temporarily misplace an item or its place in a sequence
With all that had happened, she had lost track of the time.
- lose weight
- to become less heavy
I'll need to lose weight if I want to fit into my old jeans.
- you snooze you lose
- If you are not alert and attentive, you will not be successful
- lose one's train of thought
- (Ev ile ilgili) Forget what one was talking or thinking about
- lose
- {v} to suffer loss, fail, miss, let slip, forfeit, bewilder
- lose it
- To lose control; blow up.To become deranged or mentally disturbed.To become less capable or proficient; decline
- lose one's cool
- (deyim) Fail to maintain a calm and controlled attitude
- lose one's grip
- Become unable to understand or control one's situation
- lose one's religion
- (deyim) Lose one's temper
- lose out
- To fail to achieve or receive an expected gain
- lose out on
- To miss (an opportunity, for example)
- lose sleep over
- (deyim) Worry about someone or something a lot, sometimes when one should be sleeping. (Often used with any and the negative.)
1. Yes, Kelly is in a little bit of trouble, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over her.
2. Don't lose any sleep over the matter. I refuse to lose sleep about it.
- lose temper
- Become impatient, become irritated
- lose the plot
- to become crazy
- lose the plot
- Behave strangely or foolishly: "I can't believe Stuart did that - he must be losing the plot."
- lose time
- To operate too slowly. Used of a timepiece.To delay advancement
- you snooze you lose
- (Atasözü) If you are not alert you will lose an opportunity, seize the opportunity. "Store clerks sometimes charge too much for a product. If you snooze, you lose."