achilles' heel
死穴,致命的伤痛,隐患,隐痛
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- : a portion, spot, area, or the like, that is especially or solely vulnerable: His Achilles heel is his quick temper.
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His goal: to make the perfect (and absolutely comfortable) high-heel, with the help from Nike CEO Mark Parker.
The high heel has gone through endless aesthetic changes throughout the years.
Acts of violence include death by hanging, rifle butt, boot heel, tank tracks and fireball.
Around 3am, my spindly legs are beginning to ache from balancing on deck, as we heel with each tack.
The high heel is revolutionary, and evolutionary, as an engrossing Brooklyn Museum show reveals.
The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.
And with another bow the man from Paris drew himself erect, turned on his heel, and went jingling and creaking from the room.
With which magnanimous sentiment he turned on his clumsy heel, and entered his apartment again.
He believes, he has an instinct, that here is the heel of the German Colossus, otherwise immune to our arrows.
But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet.