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strong point
1. one's strong point: that in which one excels, one's forte.
1840J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. XXXIII. 260 The strong points of each [sc. Bentham and Coleridge] correspond to the weak points of the other. c1869Taylor & Dubourg New Men & Old Acres 1. 22 Perhaps you didn't know Bunter was such a way... Humour is his strong point. 1875Max Müller in Contemp. Rev. XXVII. 72, I sent my two eldest girls to be examined last year, chiefly in order to find out their weak and their strong points. 1889T. A. Guthrie Pariah i. ix, Description was not Lettice's strong point.
2. Mil. [tr. G. feste stellung: see strong a. 8 and point n.1 A. 19.] A specially fortified position in a defence system. Also transf. and fig.
1915E. Dane Battles in Flanders x. 183 An orchard, triangular in shape and bounded along each face by a road, which the Germans had fortified. This, one of the strong points of the German second line, the Devons carried by storm. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 350/3 Billets, water-supply, roads, wiring, strongpoints, fighting. 1946D. L. Sayers Unpopular Opinions 100 Nobody was quite ready to coerce Britain into giving away her colonies, dependencies, and scattered strong-points. 1957Times 16 Feb. 7/5 Its simple existence is a strong-point in the struggle to maintain our standards against the spread of the ‘new illiteracy’. 1978L. Heren Growing up on The Times iii. 66 The Jewish Agency..had been determined to establish as many Jewish strongpoints as possible in an effort to extend its territorial claims. 1980Sci. Amer. Mar. 56/1 Preserved under the city is a record of its development since the year of its founding in A.D. 71 as a strongpoint for the Roman Ninth Legion.
3. R.A.F. (See quots.)
1946D. Hamson We fell among Greeks i. 18 The strong-point is normally a powerful bolt and shackle fitted into the framework of the aircraft at the point of exit of the parachutist. To it are attached the static-lines from each man's parachute. 1951Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 15 Strong point, a fitting in an aircraft which is capable of transmitting a shock load and to which the static line or strop is attached. 1958P. Kemp No Colours or Crest iii. 40 The sergeant clipped the static lines of our parachutes to the ‘strong-point’, a stout wire running along the fuselage beneath the roof. |