vulnerable place

He threw himself on his breast to drink, exposing his back, on which was the patch, revealing the vulnerable place.

He had wanted to strike a blow at that woman's heart, and it had rebounded on his own in its most vulnerable place.

Cesare's self-esteem, too, had been wounded in its most vulnerable place—he had been insulted before her.

For it had delivered into their hands the secret of an actual and even more vulnerable place to attack.

The words struck Maïeddine in a vulnerable place; perhaps the only one.