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Achilles heel

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Achilles heel
n
a small but fatal weakness
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Achilles heel
noun weakness, failing, lack, fault, defect, deficiency, flaw, shortcoming, blemish, imperfection, chink in your armour His Achilles heel was that he could not delegate.
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Achilles heel ntallone m di Achille


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Capitalism's Achilles Heel, Raymond William Baker
In one of his more frank moments, David Wurmser, Middle East adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, had this to say: "Lebanon is Assad's Achilles heel .
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