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Achilles' heel   /əkˈɪliz hil/   Listen
Achilles' heel

noun
1.
A seemingly small but actual mortal weakness.





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... party to shelter. Though the diver was shielded by the impenetrable fickle element that gave Achilles invulnerability, the air-pump above was exposed, and thus the diver might be slain by indirection. There lay Achilles' heel, the exposed vulnerable part that Mother ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. • Various


Words linked to "Achilles' heel" :   soft spot, weak part, weak spot


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