Meaning of soft underbelly | Babel Free

Definitions

A weak spot; a soft spot.

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Equivalents

Examples

“But supply convoys are the soft underbelly of a powerful, modern military force that the Taliban is incapable of matching in conventional combat.”

“Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is the soft underbelly of the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago.”

“The current, predominantly right-wing perception is of the Balkans as a contagious disease, an infectious sore in the soft underbelly of Europe, best left to fester in isolation.”

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