"A Crushing Victory..."

[sandyRoe]

Listening on the radio to a report about the death of Colin Powell, I heard a mention of 'crushing victory'. Isn't 'overwhelming' usually coupled with 'victory'?

[sandyRoe]

And isn't 'crushing' usually coupled with 'defeat'?

[Hopkirk]

Good to see that the journalist wasn't looking for the usual phrase.

[Bobbisox1]

It may be the fact that they crushed the regime of Sadat Hussein Sandy
But in my opinion ,leaving a vacuum among the sects there

[Bobbisox1]

*Sadam*

[Gromit]

You crush your enemy.
That is exactly what happened.

[Peter Pedant]

winston churchill used "win a great victory"
that was a cognate accusative - catching a catch instead of catching a barl...

hmm cd be a transferred adjective - crushing defeat transferred to 'victory'

anyone wanting to conquer Iraq - you have to take Nasiriyah apparently. Every Iraqi knows that....
Maude failed to in 1915 in the diastrous Mesopotamia campaign

[sandyRoe]

Would that Maude of Mesopotamia be related to the cabinet minister during the 1960s?