When you are farming somebody in a video game it is proper manners to demand to know after every death how they "lost that." The most effective way of doing this is constantly asking them "HOW" in the chat until they succumb to a rage fueled meltdown.
*headshots marvin*
walter: marvin how did you lose that?
marvin: what are you talking about yo-
water: HOW LOSE?
marvin: I SAID I-
water: HOWWW???
*marvin ragequits*
When you voluntarily lose (to make someone feel better, to end an argument), and then the situation gets even worse. So, what you thought you would gain by losing on purpose is lost anyway.
It’s a colloquial equivalent to paving the road to hell with good intentions.
(A lot of people writing their definitions for this are trying to make logic out of the phrasing but weren’t around when this phrase was more popular, leading to incorrect definitions.)
I let my spouse win the argument to calm down the situation, and now I’m getting criticized for not sticking up for myself. I can’t win for losing!
When you lose so much or so badly that it begins to spread to those around you.
Tim sucks so bad at picking football winners, he's spreading the residue of losing to the rest of us.
1. Think of something you know you need to do, but that you don't want to do.
2. Stop waiting and go do it.
3. Don't listen to me.
4. Don't let me tell you what to do.
5. Do what you want.
And that's an example of a lose-lose win-win.
An expression as, "forget the past" or "being too skeptical"
Shut up and lose the crystal ball already!!!
Donald Trump's summation of the 2020 presidential election, which by every possible means of accounting he lost.
"You lose, you lose. You go and you go wherever you're going and you go" Trump said, refusing to go.
Yuji: Who's stronger? Him, or you?
Gojo: If Sukuna got all his power he might cause me a little trouble
Yuji: But would you lose?
Gojo: Nah I'd win