Hello, and welcome to our series of episodes on idioms.
Maria and I have specially selected different idioms to talk about lots of different areas in your life to bring up your level of English to a high standard.
First of all, I'm gonna give an example, paraphrasing the idiom.
Rory will guess the idiom, and then we will give you the meaning, the origin, and more examples.
I know what idioms we are going to be talking about, but I havent seen the sentences, and I have no idea what order they are going to be in.
So, Maria, what have you got for.
Me this time at school, you know, maths.
Oh, I hated maths.
I still do.
So, maths.
Mathematics has always been my weakness.
Has it been your Achilles heel?
Correct.
So, mathematics has always been my Achilles heel.
How do you pronounce it?
Achilles heel.
From greek mythology, Achilles heel was part of a semi mythological person, and when an arrow hit his heel, he died because it was the only part of him that was weak.
Everything else was so strong, he was considered invincible, indestructible.
Yes, dear listener.
So this one is not just an idiom, it's much more culture, history, myths, Greece.