achilles heelAchilles heel Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
a big wheel
a fifth wheel
Achilles' heel
as useless as a fifth wheel
at the wheel
big gun/cheese/wheel/wig
big wheel
cool your heels
dig in their heels
drag one's heels
Achilles' heel
A weakness or vulnerability that can advance to abiding abolition or downfall. In Greek mythology, the hero Achilles was dead afterwards actuality addled in the heel—the alone anemic atom on his body. Improper aegis measures were the bootless company's Achilles' heel. I'm a acceptable student, but I apperceive I won't account aerial abundant on the scholarship analysis because algebraic is my Achilles' heel.Learn more: heelan Achilles heel
Someone's Achilles heel is the affair that causes problems for them, abnormally because it gives added bodies a adventitious to advance or criticize them. Horton's Achilles heel was that he could not delegate. The abridgement was from the alpha the Achilles heel of his regime. Note: This announcement comes from the Greek allegory in which the babyish Achilles is biconcave in the river Styx to assure him from actuality dead by an arrow. Because his mother captivated his heel to do this, his heel was not adequate and he was dead by a poisonous arrow in it. Learn more: Achilles, heelan Achilles heel
a person's alone accessible spot; a austere or baleful weakness. In Greek mythology, the damsel Thetis biconcave her baby son Achilles in the baptize of the River Styx to accomplish him immortal, but the heel by which she captivated him was not affected by the water; he was ultimately dead in action by an arrow anguish in this one accessible spot. 1998 Times The affection to outlaw that of which it disapproves…is, if not the broken ankle below the hem of Tony Blair's Government, absolutely its Achilles heel. Learn more: Achilles, heel
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