From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishweak spotweak spota) FAULT/something WRONGa point at which someone or something is not very good I carried on with my questions, sensing a weak spot in his story. b) American EnglishLIKE somebody OR something if someone has a weak spot for something, they like it very much I’ve always had a weak spot for chocolate. → spot
Examples from the Corpus
weak spot• Find a weak spot and pick at it.• If this type of interviewer senses a weak spot he or she will hang on in there - mercilessly.• So while the weather is reasonably dry, check the exterior for weak spots in the defences.• He had two fundamental weak spots.• A young teenage girl often becomes hypercritical of her mum-and knows exactly how to hit her weak spots.• Its only weak spot is in coping with bigger potholes, which send a jarring crash through the bodyshell.• Fogarty told me he was eleven when he understood his own weak spot.• Rheumatic fever as a child, so the infection settled there, on the weakest spot. 