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English
Etymology
An allusion to glass being easily breakable.
Noun
glass jaw (plural glass jaws)
- (chiefly boxing) A fighting vulnerability where one is easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw (due to lack of conditioning, insufficient training, or damage from past cerebral concussions).
1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, →ISBN, page 109:"How was I to know that big ape had a glass jaw?"
(figurative) A vulnerability of that sort; a weak spot.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:weak spot
1979, M. LeVan Rhame, Jon Chalmers Niemeyer, Tennis Magic: Playing With a Full Deck, New York: Vantage Press, page 164:It is essential that a player be able to identify his glass jaw or his weak spot and learn to deal with it in actual competition.
2008 February 13, Ross Douthat, “Obama's Glass Jaw?”, in The Atlantic:But if Obama does have a glass jaw, if his candidacy is a bubble waiting to be pricked, a strong Republican nominee like McCain is precisely the guy to do it.
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- “glass jaw n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- Eric Partridge (2005) “glass jaw”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 874.