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In a message dated 12/14/00 11:52:26 AM Pacific Standard Time,
cdg@grube-trainings.de writes:
>
> >> What is the meaning of "Pyrrhusian though?"
>>
> As I am not a native English-speaker (and
> I am inventing words in my German as well btw.) I may invent
> non-understandable
> words and apologise.
> Must say: Pyrrhusian, though.
> Pyrrhus was the Greek general who won all the battles against the Romans
> but the loss of men and goods was so great that he had to give up in the
>
Thank you for awakening in memory a faint meme that has just staggered
into my consciousness: "A Pyrrhic victory," which of course is an
expression that has come to mean a victory that is offset by staggering
losses.
Len Jayson
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