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What is a Pyrrhic victory?

What is a Pyrrhic victory? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A very costly victory, wherein the considerable losses outweigh the gain, so as to render the struggle not worth the cost.
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If we carry on carping about the way things are and keep on interfering in them, then, far from achieving what we want to achieve, the whole thing will end up turning out to be a Pyrrhic victory.
Mr. Richard Marceau: Ms. Hamel, it's been said that, if the definition of marriage were changed, that might be a Pyrrhic victory.
Time will be the judge and I believe that it will show the result of the second Irish referendum to be a Pyrrhic victory.
The attack on the Allied airfields was a Pyrrhic victory, damaging or destroying 495 Allied planes, most of them on the ground, at the cost of 277 German planes and 213 pilots.
It would be a Pyrrhic victory, undermining already shaky intergovernmental relations and leading to the demise of the local air pollution agency.
This might well be a Pyrrhic victory, but we shall have to wait and see.

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