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What is an Achilles heel?

What is an Achilles heel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A vulnerability in an otherwise strong situation.
  2. (anatomy) The Achilles' tendon, the tendo Achillis.
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Furthermore, the Achilles heel in the Commission's entire alignment strategy is the absence of any upper tax limit for Member States to respect.
In fact, the question of income in producing countries is today the Achilles heel of the world coffee sector.
The economy's Achilles heel is overinvestment by businesses.
But it also represents the Achilles heel of a company that loves to look backward more than it does forward.
The political failure to create a national liberation front is the Achilles heel of the resistance.
The seasonality of Canadian production has been called the Achilles heel of the Canadian GH industry.

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