Achilles heel

Etymology
From the Greek hero Achilles, whom according to legend his mother held by the heel when she dipped him in the River Styx, making him invulnerable everywhere except on his heel. He was later killed by an arrow wound to the heel. Although the legend is ancient, the phrase only entered English in the 19th century. It is used as a metaphor for vulnerability, as in the earliest citation, an essay by.

Noun

 * 1) A vulnerability in an otherwise strong situation.


 * 1)  The Achilles tendon, the tendo Achillis.

Translations

 * Arabic: كعب أخيل, نُقْطَة ضعف
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian: Ахилесова пета
 * Catalan: taló d'Aquil·les
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 弱項,, , 阿喀琉斯之踵,
 * Czech: Achilova pata
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: talón de Aquiles
 * Georgian: აქილევსის ქუსლი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: Achilles-sarok
 * Interlingua: calce de Achilles, talon de Achilles
 * Italian: tallone di Achille, tallone d'Achille
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 아킬레스 건
 * Macedonian: Ахилова пета
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: akilleshæl
 * Persian: پاشنه آشیل
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Ахилова пета
 * Roman: Ahilova peta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sakong ni Akiles, sakong ni Aquiles