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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^ Quite understandable if your first definition wasn't too precise: it's not always easy to come up with a good definition off the top of your head. The second one you posted was a big improvement.
Plenty of things are not worth the effort, but only winning at a huge cost is a pyrrhic victory. If you climb Everest and lose limbs because of frostbite, that's pyrrhic, but I don't imagine that many pro-sports victories are really pyrrhic. In most of them I imagine you come off unscathed and have a trophy to put on your mantlepiece. Even if the trophy wasn't worth the effort, it doesn't make it a pyrrhic victory imo - a better term for that circumstance might be "waste of time".
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Whatever OH is on about if you end up one of those linemen in American football who've operated physically at a level that the human body is simply not built to handle and end up dying of heart failure at 50, or a boxer with severe head trauma from all the concussions, then "Pyrrhic" might be valid.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0228085354.htm