weak linknoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌwiːk ˈlɪŋk/us/ˌwiːk ˈlɪŋk/a weak part, especially the weakest part of something:
They're a fairly good team - their only weak link is a relatively inexperienced goalkeeper.
A chain can only be as strong as its weakest link, so we must look at the least committed country to see if the alliance will hold.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptibility
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- wraith
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