Achille's Heel
This morning, I listened to voa, from which I learnt a new phrase " Achille's heel".
for example: Failure to gain weight is my achille's heel.
Do you know where this phrase come from and any other slang to express this meaning?
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Failure to gain weight is the bane of my existence. <--- another idiom
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it's definitely not slang, just an idiomatic expression common in English.
you can also simply say, "is my one weakness" or " it's a problem"
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It comes from the Greek myth of Achilles, whose mother took him as a baby and dipped him in the river Styx, which made him invulnerable. But, she held him by his heel, which remained his one vulnerable spot.
He grows up to become a great warrior, but is eventually killed by a poisoned arrow which hits him in this one spot.
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