Synonyms for achilles' heel
achilles' heel

Princeton's WordNet

1. Achilles' heelnoun

   a seemingly small but actual mortal weakness

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1. • Weak Part

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1. Bill Maher:

   I think you can claim the moral high ground if you’re anti, i feel like that’s the Achilles heel of the left right now. They identify issues mostly by what they can feel superior to another person for.

2. Harry Kazianis:

   The great Achilles heel of China Sea is trade — especially natural resources that come via sea and into its ports — and a big reason it will inevitably become a globally deployed military power.

3. London Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley:

   We have a growing Achilles heel that, if it is not tackled, will slowly diminish our ability to keep the public safe, if we are glibly creating a safe operating environment for criminals and terrorists, we are going to regret it.

4. Executive Martin Daum said:

   You cannot have enough expertise in this area. Our Achilles' heel is the ability to quickly develop software.

5. Andreas Essig:

   Now copsin kills bacteria by binding to an essential cell wall building block, the cell wall you can consider like the achilles heel of bacteria, so when you disrupt the cell wall synthesis bacteria usually dies rapidly. The binding pattern of copsin on this building block is very unique and therefore copsin is active against bacteria resistant to conventional antibiotics.