| Olivetam | Дата: Воскресенье, 06.12.2015, 17:42 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| Push the boat out victory won at too great a cost to oneself between 280 and 275 bc pyrrhus, king of epirus in greece, who had crossed into southern italy to help the greek city-states against early rome, won a number of costly victories over the romans. The well-known phrase derives from these, notably from the battle of asculum (279) after which pyrrhus exclaimed: 'one more such victory and we are lost'. In due course, he was defeated and returned across the adriatic. A pyrrhic victory is sometimes also sometimes known as a cadmean victory.
And here's another experience!
Wipe the slate clean booby prize traditionally presented to the candidate placed bottom in the mathematics degree examination at cambridge university, perhaps in ironic contrast to the silver spoon, a customary and valuable baptismal gift from godparents to a child as a symbol of future plenty.
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