SNATCHING

[anglychanin.livejournal.com]

How could I translate, please,    "You seem to want to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory"

Normally, someone will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. For example,  a last minute goal, Blucher's late intervention at the Battle of Waterloo, a boxer unexpectedly knocking out an opponent who was well ahead on points etc etc.

I think there must be a Russian equivalent to snatching victory which could be adapted.

Comments

[andrey-bessonov.livejournal.com]

to snatch victory - вырвать победу

[kunaifusu.livejournal.com]

Вырвать поражение из рук/пасти победы.

[akvlv.livejournal.com]

There is one saying "Запрыгнуть в уходящий поезд" - literary it means "to do something in VERY last minute", but actually it`s not about victory or wonning something. But maybe it will feat for you. This say is used for example talking about workers, who make their job AFTER dead-line or in the last day before the end/ or, for example about student who try to learn all the program in the night before the exam.

Also there is saying "Схватить птицу удачи за хвост" - to catch Byrd-of-fortune on it`s tail. It`s more literal (and more adapted also)

[bokh.livejournal.com]

Похоже Вам всё же удастся проиграть, несмотря на преследующую Вас удачу.

[asv.livejournal.com]

Bad try. That's the wrong way to translate this expression.

[kunaifusu.livejournal.com]

Please tell this to 80k+ hits in google.

[akvlv.livejournal.com]

sorry, my falt, I thought that anglychanin is interesting in snatching victory, nor defeat, so I wrote about opposite meaning

[towarysc.livejournal.com]

This is not the way sane people speak;)

[towarysc.livejournal.com]

I would say just "Похоже, вам очень хочется в последний момент всё-таки вырвать поражение", as there are no jaws in russian saying.

[liludalas.livejournal.com]

you know, perhaps this is not the best example, but in russian version of Leisure Suit Larry 7 (a game that i used to play in my teens) there was such an expression:

И снова, Ларри, ты умудрился вырвать поражение из пасти победы.

I think that's direct translation and quite a precise one.
Already mentioned here though.

[asv.livejournal.com]

Go fap on machine translators.:)

[kunaifusu.livejournal.com]

Your Ruglish is cute.

[asv.livejournal.com]

Your judgin' is sooo just! I nrly shat myself in delight.

[deva-noja.livejournal.com]

Звучит красиво

[woody-woodpeker.livejournal.com]

I like expression "падением обернулся взлет"
So, maybe "вы, кажется, хотите, чтоб взлет обернулся падением"))

Depends on context

[pinky-the-cow.livejournal.com]

Похоже, что вы так и рвётесь к поражению, несмотря на выигрышную ситуацию.

It doesn't look like an idiom, but it would do the job.

SNATCHING DEFEAT

[anglychanin.livejournal.com]

Thank you everyone

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