Half the battle

Definition

battle /'bætl/ n ၁။ [C, U] တိုက္ပြဲ။ စစ္ပြဲ။ a fierce battle ❍ the battle of Waterloo ❍ die in battle ❍ the noise of battle. ၂။ [C] ~ (for/against sth) [ဥ] တိုက္ပြဲ။ စစ္ထိုးပြဲ။ a battle of words/wits ❍ the battle for human rights ❍ Their whole life was a constant battle against poverty. v ~ (with/against sb/sth) (for sth); ~ (on) အေသအလဲ ႀကိဳးစားသည္၊ ရင္ဆိုင္သည္။ battling against poor health ❍ They battled with the wind and the waves. ❍ Progress is slow but we keep battling on. ❍ The doctors are battling to save his life. ❏ battle-cruiser n (ယခင္) အျမန္စားစစ္သေဘၤာႀကီး။ ❏ battle-cry n (က) (ေရွး) စစ္ျငာသံ။ (ခ) (ၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္) အားေပးဟစ္ေႂကြးသံ။ ေႂကြးေၾကာ္သံ။ ‘Equality for All’ is a popular political battle-cry. ❏ do battle (with sb) (over sth) [ IDM ] အႀကိတ္အနယ္ ခ်သည္။ အႀကိတ္အနယ္ျငင္းခံုသည္။ ❏ half the battle [ IDM ] [ဥ] တိုက္ပြဲတြင္ (ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ) တစ္ဝက္။ When you're sick, wanting to get well again is often half the battle.

Examples

1. One of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War
2. [battle of] : The Battle of Waterloo
3. [in battle] : Soldiers wounded in battle
4. He was wounded in a gun battle with the police.
5. The couple are locked in a bitter legal battle over custody of their children.
6. A boardroom battle
7. [battle for] : The battle for the leadership of the Labour Party
8. [a battle to do something] : Supermarkets are cutting prices in a desperate battle to win customers.
9. [battle against] : She has lost her battle against breast cancer.
10. [a battle to do something] : It was a daily battle to get my son to go to school.
11. [fight a losing battle] : She tried to get him to go
12. but she knew she was fighting a losing battle.