Short of
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Rousseau Was Right Self-Deprecation: In his appearance on 30 Rock which, given his famously thin-skinned reputation, is nothing short of astonishing.
Source: Creator / Aaron Sorkin - Tier-3 Battlecruisers are practically designed around this trope: nothing short of a full-fledged capital ship can mount more firepower (eight battleship-class guns, matching the most powerful sub-capital battleships in the game), but their defenses are paper-thin.
Source: Glass Cannon / Video Games -
Alternatively, destroy a large amount of a enemy but fall just short of actually knocking him out of the game — then watch him turn in a set of Risk Cards, and come back at your forces which are now spread thin at one-army per territory.
Source: Pyrrhic Victory
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