A Pyrrhic victory is a victory with devastating cost to the victor; it carries the implication that another such victory will ultimately cause defeat.a metrical foot that features two unstressed...
Costly Narrow Hollow One might also think of a Pyrrhic victory as a battle of attrition where both sides wear each others down until the other exhausts their resources, hence it could be an attritive...
"Mary Jane won a pyrrhic victory against the tax authorities today when the Supreme Court awarded her a $20 refund on her taxes for 1995, after ten years of litigation and more than a hundred...