Is the word Achilles Heels / Achilles Tendons not used in the UK?

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2. They’re chatting shit lmao.

3. Maybe your friend from London is just a bit slow? Either that or you’ve been had.

4. Your friend is wrong

5. Just in case you needed proof, here’s the BBC using the phrase “Achilles heel” – [Scientists find cancer’s Achilles heel](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35718491) – and [identifying malaria’s Achilles heel.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15674913) Also, [here’s an NHS page talking about the Achilles tendon.](https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/achilles-tendinopathy)

6. Never heard the tendon one personally. The heel phrase should be well known along with where it come from.

7. Your friend is wrong.

8. You’ve been tricked, bad luck 🙁

9. Course they are.

10. Your friend has shit for brains.

11. What else would they call it?

    Upper heel?

12. It is. Your friend is full of it.