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Queen Anne is dead! Pyrrhic victory – пиррова победа; победа, стоившая громадных жертв, почти равная поражению; успех, губительный для победителя A victory where the loss is bigger than the gain. The phrase is named after King Pyrrhus whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans in 280 BC during the Pyrrhic War. After the last battle of the war, Plutarch relates: “...the armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus referred to the battle that gave him joy of his victory that one more such victory would utterly undo him. For he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him, and almost all his particular friends and principal commanders; there were no others there to make recruits. On the other hand… the Roman camp was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men… gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war”. Although the phrase is most closely associated with a military battle, the term is used by analogy in fields such as business, politics, law, literature, and sports to describe any similar struggle which is ruinous for the victor: Winning the court case turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory, as his health was shattered by the experience and he died shortly afterwards. Q Queen Anne is dead! – (разг. ирон.) Открыл Америку! (в ответ на устаревшую новость) The reply made to the teller of stale news. Anne (1665– 1714) ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain. Despite seventeen pregnancies, Anne died without surviving children and was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. She was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover. 137