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The crack where everything you've been hiding finally gets some light.
means A point of vulnerability or fault — a lack of strength, whether in body, character, structure, or resolve; also a soft spot, the thing you can't resist.
from From Old Norse 'veikr,' meaning pliant or bendable, which slipped into Old English as 'wac' — soft, yielding, easily moved. The same root gives us 'weak' itself and is a cousin of 'wicker,' that bendy basket-work. The '-ness' is the old English ending that turns a quality into a thing you can name. So at heart, weakness is simply the state of bending where you'd hoped to hold firm.
- superhero rule
- Every invincible hero needs one fatal flaw
- chess origin
- Weak squares decide games more than strong pieces
- muscle truth
- Muscles grow only by being damaged first
- latin root
- From vulnus, the same root as vulnerable
- market signal
- Predators target the limping animal, not the herd
achilles heel — greek mythology: trojan war hero vulnerable only at his heel, killed by paris's arrow there in 1184 bce
kryptonite — superman's only weakness: radioactive fragment from krypton that strips his powers
maginot line — french fortification system (1930-1940) with fatal weakness: german tanks bypassed it through belgium in 1940