{"id":1475,"date":"2014-08-05T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T10:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2014-11-24T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T09:09:15","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-achilles-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-achilles-heel\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words and Expressions &#8211; Achilles Heel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expression &#8220;Achilles Heel&#8221; is used to describe a weak point in somebody&#8217;s character which can be attacked by other people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Origin:\u00a0<\/strong>Named after the Greek hero Achilles. When he was a sall child, his mother held him below the surface of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Styx\">river Styx<\/a> to protect him against any injury. She held him by his heel, which therefore was not touched by the water. Achilles died by being wounded by an arrow in the heel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Achilles-2947_l_810fc1b4b9d2c9c9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1476\" alt=\"Achilles-2947_l_810fc1b4b9d2c9c9\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Achilles-2947_l_810fc1b4b9d2c9c9.jpg\" width=\"528\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Achilles-2947_l_810fc1b4b9d2c9c9.jpg 528w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Achilles-2947_l_810fc1b4b9d2c9c9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Achilles-2947_l_810fc1b4b9d2c9c9-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Achilles-2947_l_810fc1b4b9d2c9c9-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Achilles-2947_l_810fc1b4b9d2c9c9-445x296.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expression &#8220;Achilles Heel&#8221; is used to describe a weak point &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[377,378,381,382,191,380,379],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-achilles","tag-achilles-heel","tag-greek","tag-greek-mythology","tag-interesting-expression","tag-styx","tag-weakness","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}