Definition
A weak spot; a soft spot.
In Context
- "But supply convoys are the soft underbelly of a powerful, modern military force that the Taliban is incapable of matching in conventional combat."
- "Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is the soft underbelly of the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago."
- "The current, predominantly right-wing perception is of the Balkans as a contagious disease, an infectious sore in the soft underbelly of Europe, best left to fester in isolation."