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fatal flaw
noun as in major character weakness
Example Sentences
Owen wouldn’t go so far as to speculate on what might happen Monday in Boston before O’Toole, the district court judge, but looking further down the road, he pointed out a potentially fatal flaw in the White House’s plan to downsize the federal government, a group that includes approximately 100,000 Justice Department lawyers.
Others followed, marking a legislative agenda that few first-term presidents in the modern era could match – but it came with what some critics see as a fatal flaw.
Sympl Travel Backpack Backpacks often have one fatal flaw: they’re hard to organize.
Using private equity to keep up with the Joneses has the fatal flaw that the Joneses have their own access to capital.
Especially if someone comes along and points out a fatal flaw.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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