英语词汇soft underbelly的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

soft underbelly. A vulnerable part of anything. Another of the many expressions invented by the British prime minister Winston Churchill during World War II. First said by Churchill in an August 1942 meeting with Stalin: “To illustrate my point I had meanwhile drawn a picture of a crocodile and explained to Stalin . . . how it was our intention to attack the soft belly of the crocodile as we attacked his hard snout” (Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 4, 1951). Later, “belly” became “underbelly.”

词汇	soft underbelly
词源	soft underbelly. A vulnerable part of anything. Another of the many expressions invented by the British prime minister Winston Churchill during World War II. First said by Churchill in an August 1942 meeting with Stalin: “To illustrate my point I had meanwhile drawn a picture of a crocodile and explained to Stalin . . . how it was our intention to attack the soft belly of the crocodile as we attacked his hard snout” (Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 4, 1951). Later, “belly” became “underbelly.”
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