heel of Achilles
Example Sentences
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That’s a veritable heel of Achilles with him.”
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Fearing that she might discover our vulnerable "heel of Achilles" we had to take all chances.
From The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story by H. Ashton Ramsay
Mr. Polly had discovered the heel of Achilles.
From The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
You said then that they were man's heel of Achilles.
From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles
It was the heel of Achilles a while back, and now it is the stone of Sisyphus!
From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Julia Kavanagh
