VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Achilles heel

Meaning:

said about a strong situation which contains an element of vulnerability.

Examples:

  • Technology is their compression-sock-covered achilles heel!
  • It is also the Achilles heel of the European Union.
  • The first baseman is the Achilles heel of our team.
  • Implementation has been the Achilles heel of the Programme of Action.
  • Find out what their Achilles heel is, and cut into it.
  • Human rights are clearly the Achilles heel of the Iranian regime.
  • This is the Achilles heel of the matter, in my view.
  • There was no giant out there without perhaps a simple Achilles heel.
  • This is an Achilles heel for him when it is exposed.
  • Precisely this is the Achilles Heel of most theological and religious socialisms.