Syntactic analysis and the meaning of phraseology "Achilles' heel"

You've probably heard youracquaintances mockingly discuss any person, using an incomprehensible speech turn in their speech: “The student’s Achilles heel is mathematics”. And so on and so forth. This expression surely interested you, and a question like: "What is the meaning of the phraseological unit" Achilles' heel "?"

It is embarrassing and scary to ask - they will suddenly laugh andtwist a finger to his temple! Familiar philologists among your friends do not have to ask. And in the search engines for the query "Achilles heel: meaning" each site gives its own interpretation of this phraseological unit, and each following 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 "Achilles' heel".

First, let's parse this phrase. It consists of two words: "Achilles" and "heel." We find out what parts of speech they belong to.

The word "heel" answers the question "what?"", has a feminine gender, can vary in cases (heels, heels, heels, heels, heels) and has the 1st declination, 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 (Achilles, Achilles), then, based on the above signs, is an adjective. The noun from which it is formed -" Achilles ".

The phrase "Achilles' heel" has the structure "adjective + noun". The method of syntactic connection of words in it is agreement.

Now go to the linguistic part:we find out the literary meaning of the phraseological unit "Achilles heel". If you read the paragraph about the adjective in this phrase, you already understood that the root of both its and the whole phraseological unit is the word, more precisely, the name: Achilles.

Если вы читали древнегреческую мифологию, то вам the word "Achilles" is probably familiar or, as some sources say, "Achilles". This is the name of one of the participants of the Trojan War. 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 by Zeus.Promethem, chained to the rock. He warned the thunderer not to marry the sea goddess Thetida as his wife, or else they would have a son who would be stronger than his father. Zeus listened to Prometheus and gave Thetida to be married to the great hero Peleus, king of the Mormidonians. Soon they had a son, named Achilles. To make his son invulnerable, Thetis, holding Achilles by the heel, plunged him into the waters of the sacred river Styx. And he became unyielding for arrows, fire and sword, only the heel, which his mother was holding, remained the only vulnerable spot on his whole body.

As a child, Achilles was raised by his friend Phoenix andcentaur Chiron. Soon, according to the requirements of Odysseus and Nestor, as well as fulfilling the will of his father, Achilles joined the march on Troy. His mother, the goddess Thetis, knowing that this campaign for Achilles would not end with anything good, wanting to save her son, hid him from King Skyros Lycomedet among the last daughters, dressing her son in women's clothes.

But Odysseus found out about this and decided to go forcunning. He came to Lykomed's palace and laid out women's jewelry and weapons in front of the princesses. All the daughters of King Skyros began to admire the decorations, and only one grabbed a weapon. This was Achilles, who, learning the art of weapons possession from childhood, could not resist the temptation to take it. Odysseus immediately made a fuss, and the exposed Achilles was forced to join the squad of Greeks.

In the battles Achilles showed himself as excellentwarrior, from his hands fell 72 Trojans. But in the last battle he was killed by the arrow of Paris, which he let him right into that very vulnerable heel. Subsequently, the body of Achilles was redeemed for an equal weight of gold.

This is the whole legend about Achilles.Probably, you already understood the meaning of the phraseological unit. 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, a topic, etc. in humans, although in appearance it seems invulnerable.

There are a lot of idioms in Russian.And the conversation, in which the subject of discussion is the meaning of the phraseological unit "Achilles' heel", is not the only one among the multitude of questions on the topic "Wise words." Another huge number of idioms has a not so intricate meaning. But we will talk about them another time.