chink in sb's armour
Definition
› a fault in someone's character or argument that may cause problems for them: A single chink in our armour at the negotiating table means we could lose out badly.Faults and mistakesWeakness and vulnerability
(Definition of chink in sb's armour from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- Achilles heel noun
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- debility noun
- faint adjective (SLIGHT)
- frailty noun
- impotent adjective (LACKING POWER)
- indefensible adjective
- lax adjective
- man of straw noun (WEAK)
- mercy noun (KINDNESS)
- susceptibility noun
- susceptible adjective (INFLUENCED)
- toothless adjective (NO POWER)
- underbelly noun
- unprotected adjective
- unsteady adjective
- vulnerable adjective
- wraith noun
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