pick one's battles (English, verb)
expansion: pick one's battles (third-person singular simple present picks one's battles, present participle picking one's battles, simple past and past participle picked one's battles)
Senses:
glosses: To involve oneself in disputes only if one is likely to win.
tags: idiomatic
glosses: To take a stand for a cause only if it is truly important enough to be worth the costs.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: picks one's battles
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: picking one's battles
tags: participle
present
form: picked one's battles
tags: participle
past
form: picked one's battles
tags: past