You probably had to hear how your friends derisively discuss any person, to use in a speech you do not understand a figure of speech: "The Achilles heel of this student - mathematics."And so on and so forth.This expression is certainly of interest to you, and in my head immediately starts to spin a question like, "What is the meaning phraseologism" Achilles heel "?".
Ask ashamed and afraid - suddenly laughed at and twist a finger at his temple!Familiar philologists among your friends do not have to ask.A search engine on request "Achilles' heel: the value of" each site gives its own interpretation of phraseological, and each should be distinguished from the previous one.But if you came across this article, consider yourself lucky!Below we will explain in detail the importance of phraseologism "Achilles heel", or the "Achilles' heel".
First, let's make parsing of the phrase.It consists of two words: "Achilles" and "heel".We find out, to what parts of speech they belong.
word "heel" answers the question "what?", Is feminine may vary for case (heel, heel, heel, fifth on the heel) and is the first decline, which means that is a noun.It is a synonym - "heel."
word "Achilles" answers the question "what? Whose?" Is feminine and changes on cases (Achilles, Achilles), then on the basis of the above features, an adjective.The noun from which it is formed - "Achilles."
phrase "Achilles' heel" has a structure of "adjective + noun".The method of syntactic context of words in it - agreement.
Now go to the linguistic part: find out literary significance phraseologism "Achilles heel."If you read the paragraph about the adjective in the phrase, you already understand that the root of his, and the entire phraseologism - the word, or rather, the name of Achilles.
If you read ancient Greek mythology, then you probably know the word "Achilles" or, as they say some sources, "Achilles".This is the name of one of the participants in the Trojan War.The origin of the expression is now under discussion is closely related to the death of the hero.His ... No, stop.While you will not understand the entire life of Achilles, you will not understand anything when I'm gonna talk about his death.
birth was foretold Achilles to Zeus Prometheus chained to a rock.He warned of the thunder, so he did not take his wife's sea goddess Thetis, and not have a son who will be stronger than his father.Zeus listened Prometheus and given in marriage to Thetis great hero Peleyu king Myrmidons.Soon they had a son named Achilles.To make her son invulnerable, Thetis, Achilles holding the heel, dipped it into the waters of the sacred river Styx.And he began to unyielding arrows, fire and sword, but the heel, which is held for his mother, remained the only weak spot on his entire body.
a child brought up by his friend Achilles and the Centaur Chiron Phoenix.Soon, according to the requirements of Odysseus and Nestor, as well as fulfilling the will of his father, Achilles joined the campaign against Troy.His mother, the goddess Thetis prophetic, knowing that nothing good for this campaign will not end Achilles, wanting to save his son, the king hid him among the daughters of Lycomedes Skyros latter, along son in women's clothes.
But Odysseus learned about it and decided to go to the trick.He came to the palace of Lycomedes and laid before the princesses women's jewelry and weapons.All the king's daughter began to admire the decorations Skyros, and only one grabbed the weapon.It was Achilles, who learned the art of possession of weapons since childhood, could not resist the temptation to take it.Odysseus immediately raised the noise and exposing Achilles was forced to join the Greek squad.
In battles Achilles revealed himself as a great warrior, his hands fell from 72 Trojan.But in the last battle he was killed by an arrow of Paris, which he let him right in the most vulnerable heel.Later the body of Achilles bought for equal weight in gold.
This whole legend of Achilles.You've probably already realized the importance of phraseologism.This myth Achilles heel - it is, so to speak, of the Achilles heel, which was the only vulnerable part of his body.And as she phraseologism indicates weak or vulnerable place, subject, etc.in humans, although in appearance it seems invulnerable.
in Russian so many idioms.And the conversation in which the subject matter - the value phraseologism "Achilles heel", is not only one among many questions on "sayings."Another huge number of phraseology is not as catchy sense.But let's talk about them another time.
