Iron heel
Title of the novel (1907) by an American writer Jack London(pseudonym of John Griffith, 1876-1916).
Allegorically about coercion, suppression, oppression by someone (“to be under the iron heel of a dictatorship”, etc.). It was often used in Soviet journalism (“the suffering of the working people under the iron heel of capital”, etc.).
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Heel
back of human and bear foot.
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Heel
Heel
To toe- very long
On the heels (walk, chase etc.) - relentlessly, keeping up
under the heel- under power, under oppression
Heel
1. The lower level in the bend of the arch (1, 3) or vault.
2. Notch for mounting pin.
(Terms of the Russian architectural heritage. Pluzhnikov V.I., 1995)
(impost)
the lower supporting part of the arch, vault.
(Architecture: An Illustrated Guide, 2005)
P YATA, s, pl. heels, heels, heels, and.
1. The heel, as well as the foot (out of stable combinations with obsolete prepositions). To toe(about a very long, almost to the ground clothes or braid). On the heels of walking, chasing stones. (following the stone, not lagging behind). Under the heel of a cogon. (under oppression, under power; high.). From (from) head to toe (same as from head to toes).
2. The end of something, which is a support (special). P. vault.
| adj. fifth, oh, oh (to 2 meanings) and spotted, oh, oh (to 2 meanings).
Heel
or heel- rear corner of the foot, containing the calcaneus (calcaneum). In humans, this is the largest of the bones of the foot, has an irregularly cylindrical shape and carries one large and two small articular surfaces for the talus on top, and an articular surface for the cuboid bone in front. In lower vertebrates, this bone corresponds to os fibulare (see Limbs), which is initially the same size as all the others, but, starting from tailless amphibians, it gets (simultaneously with the talus) larger sizes and is called cuboid. The heel only in plantigrade animals, i.e., those resting on the entire foot when walking, touches the ground, while in digitigrade animals it can be very high above the ground. So in birds, although there are no bones isolated in the foot, there is an articulation corresponding to the articulation of the heel with the talus. This calcaneal articulation occurs where the long toe-bearing bone - the tarsus articulates with the lower leg and, due to the elongation of the tarsus, it can lie very high. In a horse, for example, as well as others, leaning on the ends of the fingers when walking mammals (digitigrade), the calcaneal articulation is also placed very high.
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Heel
heel, heels, pl. heels, heels, heels, female
1. The same as, and also in general - a leg ( books. rhetorician. obsolete). "Under his strong heel, the flinty mounds crack." Lomonosov.
2. The wide end of something, which is a support (sometimes inserted into some kind of base, nest; specialist.). The foot of a vertical or inclined shaft ( those.). The heel of the vault (the base of the vault; archit.). Door heel (lower corner of the door leaf adjacent to the wall; dense).
On the heels (to walk) behind someone - relentlessly, not lagging behind, directly following someone. "The chase was on his heels." A.Turgenev. Under the heel ( books. rhetorician.) - under power, under oppression. The peoples groaned under the heel of the autocracy. Achilles' heel ( books.) the weak side of something, an easily vulnerable spot (according to other Greek mythology, the body of Achilles was invulnerable in all places except the heel). "The absence of a clearly conscious goal is the Achilles' heel of all administrators who have been educated by Dussault." Saltykov-Shchedrin. From (or from) head to toe ( unfold) - in everything, from all sides, in all respects, entirely. He is lazy from head to toe. The iron heel is a symbolic designation of the dictatorship of the financial oligarchy.
Heel
On the heels (walk) for someone- relentlessly, not lagging behind, immediately following someone or something.
Behind him was a chase. Turgenev.
under the heel (book. rhetorician.) - under power, under oppression.
The peoples groaned under the heel of autocracy.
Achilles' heel (book.) the weak side of something, an easily vulnerable spot [according to other Greek. mythology, the body of Achilles was invulnerable in all places except the heel].
The absence of a clearly conscious goal is the Achilles heel of all administrators who have been educated by Usso. Saltykov-Shchedrin.
FROM (or from) head to toe (unfold) - in everything, from all sides, in all respects.
He's lazy from head to toe.
The soul has gone to the heels- very frightened.
Shooting is such that the soul goes to the heels.
Only heels sparkle or sparkled (unfold) - about fast running.
Ran from a place, and only the heels sparkled.
Show heels(colloquial) - take flight.
-Now she has shown us her heels! ... So chase her along the high roads. Dostoevsky.
Head to toe- in everything, from all sides, in all respects, entirely.
From head to toe, all Moscow have a special imprint. Griboyedov.
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At the third minute, infrared radiation from the right upper limb increases, and at the fifth minute, the thermal fields on the limbs level off.
It was the inability of the renewed Russian team to achieve victories with little bloodshed, due to rigor and discipline, that was considered its Achilles heel, and the head coach was accused of stubbornness and short-sightedness, putting an end to the prospects of his team.
You have probably heard how your acquaintances mockingly discuss any person, using in their speech an incomprehensible speech turn: "Achilles' heel of this student is mathematics." And so on and so forth. This expression must have interested you, and a question like: "What is the meaning of the Achilles' heel" phraseological unit immediately begins to spin in your head?
It’s shameful and scary to ask - they will suddenly laugh and twist a finger at the temple! There are no familiar philologists among your friends to ask. And in the search engines for the query "meaning" each site gives its own interpretation of this phraseological unit, and each next one is different from the previous one. But if you stumbled upon this article, consider yourself lucky! Below we will explain in detail the meaning of the phraseological unit "Achilles heel", or "heel Achilles."
First, let's make this phrase. It consists of two words: "Achilles" and "heel". Find out what parts of speech they belong to.
The word "heel" answers the question "what?", has a feminine gender, can change in cases (heels, heels, heels, fifths, on the heels) and has the 1st declension, which means it is a noun. Its synonym is "heel".
The word "Achilles" answers the questions "what? whose?", has a feminine gender and changes in cases, which means, based on the above signs, is an adjective. The noun from which it is derived is "Achilles".
The phrase "Achilles' heel" has the structure "adjective + The method of syntactic connection of words in it is agreement.
Now let's move on to the linguistic part: we find out the literary meaning of the phraseologism "Achilles' heel". If you read the paragraph about the adjective in this phrase, you already understood that the root of both it and the entire phraseological unit is the word, more precisely, the name: Achilles.
If you have read ancient Greek mythology, then you probably know the word "Achilles" or, as some sources say, the name of one of the participants. The origin of the expression now being discussed is closely related to the death of this hero. His... No, stop. Until you understand the whole life of Achilles, you will not understand anything when I talk about his death.
The birth of Achilles was predicted to Zeus by Prometheus, chained to a rock. He warned the Thunderer not to marry the sea goddess Thetis, otherwise they would have a son who would be stronger than his father. Zeus listened to Prometheus and gave Thetis as a wife to the great hero Peleus, king of the Myrmidons. Soon they had a son named Achilles. To make her son invulnerable, Thetis, holding Achilles by the heel, dipped him into the sacred waters. And he became unyielding to arrows, fire and sword, only the heel, by which his mother held, remained the only vulnerable spot on his whole body.
As a child, Achilles was raised by his friend Phoenix and the centaur Chiron. Soon, according to the requirements of Odysseus and Nestor, as well as fulfilling the will of his father, Achilles joined the campaign against Troy. His mother, the prophetic goddess Thetis, knowing that this campaign would not end well for Achilles, wanting to save her son, hid him from the king of Skyros Lykomeds among the daughters of the latter, dressing her son in women's clothes.
But Odysseus found out about this and decided to go for a trick. He came to the palace of Lycomedes and laid out women's jewelry and weapons in front of the princesses. All the daughters of the king of Skyros began to admire the decorations, and only one grabbed a weapon. This was Achilles, who, having been trained in the art of weapons from childhood, could not resist the temptation to take them. Odysseus immediately raised a fuss, and the exposed Achilles was forced to join the detachment of the Greeks.
In battles, Achilles showed himself to be an excellent warrior, 72 Trojans fell from his hand. But in the last battle, he was killed by the arrow of Paris, which he launched right into that very vulnerable heel. Subsequently, the body of Achilles was redeemed for an equal weight of gold.
This is the whole legend of Achilles. You probably already understand the meaning of phraseology. In this myth, the Achilles' heel is, let's say, the heel of Achilles, which was the only vulnerable part of his body. And in the role of a phraseological unit, it denotes a weak or vulnerable spot, topic, etc. in a person, although he seems invulnerable in appearance.
There are a lot of idioms in the Russian language. And the conversation in which the subject of discussion is the meaning of the phraseologism "Achilles' heel" is not the only one among the many questions on the topic "Winged expressions". Another huge number of phraseological units has a not so tricky meaning. But we'll talk about them another time.
