Usually means: Vulnerability in an otherwise strength.
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  1. Achilles' heel: Merriam-Webster
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  3. Achilles' heel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Achilles heel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  11. Achilles' Heel, Achilles Heel (Homeland), Achilles Heel (album), Achilles Heel (disambiguation), Achilles' heel, Achilles heel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  17. Achilles Heel: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  18. achilles heel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Achilles Heel, Achilles' heel: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Achilles' heel)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of Achilles heel [A vulnerability in an otherwise strong situation.]

Similar:
clutch, blood in the water, hornets' nest, hair trigger, suki, salt in the wound, breaking point, knife-edge, precipice, trouble spot, more...

Opposite:
strength, forte, specialty, advantage

Adjectives:
thorny, nettlesome, hitchy, pinched, feathered, breakbone, windy, crabby, crabwise, stringy, weazened

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Similar:
clutch, blood in the water, hornets' nest, hair trigger, suki, salt in the wound, breaking point, knife-edge, precipice, trouble spot, more...

Opposite:
strength, forte, specialty, advantage

Adjectives:
thorny, nettlesome, hitchy, pinched, feathered, breakbone, windy, crabby, crabwise, stringy, weazened



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