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Definition of pyrrhussieg (zu teuer erkaufter sieg, nur ein scheinsieg) in English Turkish dictionary
- Pyrrhic victory
- Büyük kayıplarla kazanılan başarı. (Epir kralı Pyrrhus'a atfen.)
- Pyrrhic victory
- görünüşteki zafer
- Pyrrhic victory
- fazla pahalıya mal olan zafer; büyük kayıplarla kazanılan başarı
- Pyrrhic victory
- gerçekte bir felâket olan zafer
- Pyrrhic victory
- büyük kayıplarla elde edilen zafer
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Definition of pyrrhussieg (zu teuer erkaufter sieg, nur ein scheinsieg) in German English dictionary
- Pyrrhic victory
- A very costly victory, wherein the considerable losses outweigh the gain, so as to render the struggle not worth the cost
- If you describe a victory as a Pyrrhic victory, you mean that although someone has won or gained something, they have also lost something which was worth even more. a victory in which the person who wins suffers so much that the victory was hardly worth winning (Pyrrhus (312?-272BC), Greek king whose army defeated the Romans but had very many killed and wounded)
- victory accompanied by enormous losses (as was Pyrrhus' victory over the Romans in the 3rd century B.C.)
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