glass jaw

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(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.

• 2019 July 1, Gabriela Resto-Montero, “Post-debate polls show Biden’s lead shrinking and Harris gaining”, in Vox:

  Does the frontrunner have a glass jaw?
  All year, Biden has led in the vast majority of national and early-state polls of Democratic voters.

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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.