fail to win

fail to win
   to lose
   Not even to draw. This was the excuse of the pusillanimous Unionist General McClellan in the American Civil War:
    McClellan insisted that he had not lost; he had merely 'failed to win' only because overpowered by superior numbers. (G. C. Ward, 1990in fact the numbers opposing him were inferior, but better led)

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