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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Achille's Heel
This morning, I listened to voa, from which I learnt a new phrase, "Achilles' heel".
For example: Failure to gain weight is my Achilles' heel.
Do you know where this phrase comes from and any other slang to express this meaning?
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Achilles Heel
This morning, I listened to VOA, from which I learnt a new phrase "Achilles 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?
Achilles here is not possessive but the full name - no need for apostrophe
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/achilles%20heel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey
You can read about 'the Odyssey' by Homer.
'A chink in the armour'
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Achilles was a character in Greek Mythology. To make him immortal, when he was a baby his mother held him by the heel and dipped him into the river Styx. Because she was holding his heel, it was not covered by the river and it became his only weakness. He was killed when he got a very small cut on his heel.
Now we use the phrase "Achilles' heel" to talk about our greatest weakness, some issue we always struggle with. Another phrase with the same meaning would be "fatal flaw".
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