English-Portuguese translations for achilles

• Aquiles
  Esse é o calcanhar de Aquiles da política comum de pescas. This is the Achilles' heel of the European fisheries policy.
  Em segundo lugar, a fiscalização continua a ser o calcanhar de Aquiles desta legislação. Secondly, monitoring remains the Achilles' heel of this legislation.
  Este ponto, em particular, constitui o calcanhar de Aquiles da actual prática na UE. This point, in particular, is the Achilles' heel of current EU practice.

Definition of achilles

• A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the ''Iliad'as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean camp

Related words

• Achilles heel
• Achilles' tendon
• Achilles' heel
• Achilles tendon
• tendon of Achilles