pick one's battles

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toinvolveoneself indisputesonly if one is likely towin.Synonym:choose one's battles; (idiomatic)Totake a standfor acauseonly if it is trulyimportantenough to beworththecosts.2010May 25,Lynn Hirschberg, quotingM.I.A., “M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop”, inThe New York Times‎[1],→ISSN:“[…]Jimmy Iovine, who runs Interscope, my record company, said, ‘Pick your battlescarefully — don’t put your life at risk,’ but at the end of the day, I don’t see how you can shut up and just enjoy success when other people who don’t have the fame or the luxury to rent security guards are suffering.[…]”

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