soft underbelly | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Aweak spot; asoft spot.2009March 30, Mustafa Qadri, “Nato's soft underbelly”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:But supply convoys are thesoft underbellyof a powerful, modern military force that the Taliban is incapable of matching in conventional combat.2014May 12, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Western Antarctic ice sheet collapse has already begun, scientists warn”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is thesoft underbellyof the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago.2014, Christian Promitzer, Siegfried Gruber, Harald Heppner, editors,Southeast European Studies in a Globalizing World, LIT Verlag Münster,page119:The current, predominantly right-wing perception is of the Balkans as a contagious disease, an infectious sore in thesoft underbellyof Europe, best left to fester in isolation.

Examples:

EN: A heavy depression like- like the soft underbelly of an elephant.
ES: Una fuerte depresión como la suave parte inferior de un elefante.
EN: I do know that in these document Mr. Churchill keeps referring to the 'soft underbelly of Europe.'
ES: Sé que en estos documentos Churchill sigue refiriéndose al "débil bajo vientre de Europa."
EN: When the campaign was over, we trained two more battalions and headed for Europe's soft underbelly.
ES: Después de esta campaña, se entrenaron otros 2 batallones, y nos fuimos a Europa.
EN: And that's the way the rangers died-- without a whimper, there at anzio, in the soft underbelly of Europe.
ES: Los Rangers murieron así sin una queja, en Anzio. La zona sensible de Europa.
EN: Uh, we shall do the main attack in the soft underbelly of Monte Carlo, right here.
ES: Lanzaremos una poderosa ofensiva militar desde las proximidades de Montecarlo, justo aquí.
EN: A sprawling dragon nestled on the soft underbelly of China.
ES: Un dragón acurrucado en la barriga de China.
EN: In the 5th century, as the once-mighty Roman Empire crumbled, the soft underbelly of Western Europe lay invitingly exposed to the barbarian hordes to the East.
ES: En el siglo V, mientras el poderoso Imperio Romano se hundía... las partes bajas de Europa quedaban expuestas a los bárbaros del Este.
EN: The enemy cuts off your supply lines... lets you get cold and hungry, and then they go right for your soft underbelly.
ES: El enemigo bloquea tus suministros... te deja casi muerto de hambre y frío, y luego te ataca.
EN: Well, do you see anybody else pressing the soft underbelly button?
ES: ? Ves a alguien más apretando el botón del ataque?
EN: The generous guy with a heart of gold and the soft underbelly.
ES: EI hombre generoso con corazón de oro yvientre suave.
EN: Now, don't expose the soft underbelly, They target that,
ES: No expongas tu punto débil. Ellos lo convierten en su blanco.
EN: Whereas right here is the soft underbelly of the island.
ES: En cambio, éste es el punto débil de la isla.
EN: You're exposing your soft underbelly.
ES: Estás exponiendo tu delicada área vulnerable.
EN: Go for the soft underbelly! Soft?
ES: Dale en el bajo vientre flácido.
EN: It's a soft underbelly.
ES: Es más blando bajo la tripa.

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