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soft spot
noun
a weak or vulnerable position, place, condition, etc..
a soft spot in their fortifications; a soft spot in the economy.
emotional susceptibility.
a soft spot for dogs and babies.
soft spot
noun
a sentimental fondness (esp in the phrase have a soft spot for )
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of soft spot1
Idioms and Phrases
A weak or vulnerable point, as in That's the soft spot in his argument . [Mid-1900s]
have a soft spot for . Have a tender or sentimental feeling for, as in Grandpa had a soft spot for Brian, his first grandson . This expression, first recorded in 1753 as “a soft place in one's heart,†uses soft in the sense of “tender.â€
Example Sentences
"Obviously I have seven kids so you've got to think about them all but I have a soft spot for Kieran and what I did for him," he said.
"I had a beautiful old oak tree, that's gone. I've a soft spot for bats and used to love watch them flying around the oak tree in the evening, they've gone."
California’s struggle around homelessness has been a black eye and a contentious soft spot for years, and even the most sympathetic of Californians are tired of the squalor and pain.
Online charter schools are a soft spot in California’s childhood vaccine laws.
The publicly funded schools are among the few remaining soft spots in California’s stringent childhood vaccination laws, which lawmakers tightened after a measles outbreak that began at Disneyland in 2014 sickened more than 300 people.
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