Achilles heel
Example Sentences
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Europe’s exposure to spot prices for liquefied natural gas is its Achilles’ heel.
“These desalination plants, even more than the energy infrastructure of the Gulf monarchies, are their Achilles’ heel.”
Investors and policymakers should ask themselves whether the push into the retail space may turn out to be private credit’s Achilles’ heel.
From MarketWatch
As he notes, "this same virtue had become their experimental Achilles' heel: how do you "read" or "detect" a property that doesn't reside at any specific point?"
From Science Daily
Permitting difficulties are America’s economic Achilles’ heel.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
