Caroline Tran
2020-12-06 11:12
Snatch victory (from the jaws of defeat) informal verb phrase
Everybody was surprised because Peter won the first price. He snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
At the last moment, our team snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a very interesting slide of our presentation.
To be extremely successful and admired by a range of people.
The expression is used at the beginning of a competition to say that you hope the most fastest, strongest, or most skilled succeed person
wins.
I will win no matter what happens.
To win only by a smaill amount; to win narrowly
The verb "snatch" should be conjugated according to its tense.
(Image Source: The Church at Ashevillie)
The idiom was supposed to be first recorded in an article criticizing Representative James Seddon of Virginia for claiming that a regiment in the Mexican-American war had win.
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