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Achilles' heel   /əkˈɪliz hil/   Listen
Achilles' heel

noun
1.
A seemingly small but actual mortal weakness.





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"Achilles' heel" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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
... flatter myself that I've made much headway. R. is like a rhinoceros. Can't find a vulnerable spot anywhere. He seems morally calloused. I say seems because I can scarcely believe that a boy of sixteen can really be as absolutely unmoral as he appears. Perhaps, eventually, I will find an Achilles' heel. ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour


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