It means someone or something was holding on to your heel and keeping you from moving forward.
It means very happy. Like dad was smiling from ear to earas he held the new baby.
In Aramaic, it is Yeqob. It means, "Heel".
They are wooden shoes with a heel worn in greek theater.
The spelling is "Achilles' heel" (a potentially disastrous weakness or vulnerability).(The idiom comes from the legend of Achilles, impervious to harm because he was dipped in the river Styx as an infant. His only weak point was where he was held, by his heel.)
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"Held by the Heel" refers to the Greek hero Achilles. Achilles Heel. Otherwise it could mean to gain authority/surpass, which has nothing to do with the Greek mythology.
The phrase 'held to answer' means held responsible.
The name Koby or Kobi means "Held by the Heel"
The question doesn't make sense because it's stating the obvious. The term 'Achilles' heel' refers to a person in Greek Mythology who was the son of an immortal nymph who tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx. She forgot to wet the heel she held him by, thus making him immortal, all but his heel. So when we refer to someone's 'Achilles' heel' we are referring to their weak spot. So the question doesn't make sense because one's 'Achilles' heel' is one's only weakness so it's an obvious question.
This phrase is not found anywhere in Romeo and Juliet.
a blow to his heel which was his weak spot which is the meaning of the phrase ''your Achilles heel''
The phrase "Achilles' heel" is a way of naming a weakness. An example of a sentence using the phrase would be: While he was a fantastic Basketball player, free throws were his Achilles' heel.
A heel is a despicable person.
It is a person's point of weakness. Achilles, according to legend, was dunked in the River Styx by his mother Thetis when he was a baby. She wanted to make him immortal. While dunking him, she held him by the heel. This is the only body part that was not immortal. During the Trojan War, Paris shot him in the heel, killing him. His heel was his only weak point, hence his "Achilles Heel.'
Many of us get heal and heel confuse and BasicallyHeal means to feel betterWhile heel means the shoe heel or the foot
Thetis dipped Achilles in the waters of the River Styx, by which means he became invulnerable, except for the part of his heel by which she held him-the proverbial "Achilles' heel."
Achilles Heel