soft underbelly

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Etymology

From Winston Churchill’s phrase “soft underbelly of the Axis (or Europe)” (1942) [1].

Noun

soft underbelly (plural soft underbellies)

  1. (idiomatic) A weak spot; a soft spot.
    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. Southeast European Studies in a Globalizing World, 12th January 2014

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