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Fabian tactics

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To “win like Fabius” or to win by “Fabian tactics” is to wear out an opponent by delay and evasion rather than confrontation, in the style of the ancient Roman general Fabius.

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Words nearby Fabian tactics

fabada, Fabergé, Fabian, Fabianism, Fabian Society, Fabian tactics, Fabius Maximus, fable, fabled, fabliau, Fablon
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How to use Fabian tactics in a sentence

  • Thus greatly outnumbered, Maceo wisely resorted not so much to guerrilla warfare as to what may be called Fabian tactics.

    The History of Cuba, vol. 4|Willis Fletcher Johnson

  • These Fabian tactics do not mean that the Sennussi are idle.

    The New World of Islam|Lothrop Stoddard
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