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Enchantress Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary

Any expression or idiom for the sentence

My team and I were competing against a group of gamers. We were winning but at the last minute they beat us and we lost. Is there any expression to say "We lost despite being so close to win"

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Maybe: We snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory. We choked. We blew it.

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  • Maybe: We snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.
  • We choked.
  • We blew it.
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Maybe:


We snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.

We choked.

We blew it.




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They won / beat us by a whisker
They won by a nose

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