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Pyrrhic victory   /pˈɪrɪk vˈɪktəri/   Listen
Pyrrhic victory

noun
1.
A victory that is won by incurring terrible losses.





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"Pyrrhic victory" Quotes from Famous Books



... same result of a sharp correspondence, abounding in strong language, but affording Canning further opportunity to confuse issues and escape from reparations, which, however just and wise, were distasteful. It was a Pyrrhic victory for the British minister, destroying the last chance of conciliating American acquiescence in a line of action forced upon Great Britain by Napoleon; but as a mere question of dialectics he had scored ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 1 • Alfred Thayer Mahan
... found many who were willing to succour her; with the result that although she lost something in these negotiations, Japan nevertheless failed in a very signal fashion to attain her main objective. The Pyrrhic victory which she won with her eleventh hour ultimatum will indeed in the end cost her more than would have a complete failure, for Chinese suspicion and hostility are now so deep-seated that nothing will ever completely eradicate ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale


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