"glass jaw" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "An allusion to glass being easily breakable.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, →ISBN, page 109:",
          "text": "\"How was I to know that big ape had a glass jaw?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[2010, Stephen Timblin, Muhammad Ali: King of the Ring, Sterling, →ISBN, page 101:",
          "text": "Early in Ali's career, experts believed he had what's called a glass jaw—that he would fall after the first big punch. He was now proving that he could take a punch, but each punch chipped away at his health.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fighting vulnerability where one is easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw (due to lack of conditioning, insufficient training, or damage from past cerebral concussions)."
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          "knocked out",
          "knocked out"
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          "chin",
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        ],
        [
          "jaw",
          "jaw"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly boxing) A fighting vulnerability where one is easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw (due to lack of conditioning, insufficient training, or damage from past cerebral concussions)."
      ],
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            "adjective"
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          "word": "chinny"
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "glass chin"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "bad chin"
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        "boxing",
        "government",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "martial-arts",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "sports",
        "war"
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        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sensitive chin or jaw",
          "word": "lasileuka"
        },
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "sensitive chin or jaw",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Glaskinn"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1979, M. LeVan Rhame, Jon Chalmers Niemeyer, Tennis Magic: Playing With a Full Deck, New York: Vantage Press, page 164:",
          "text": "It is essential that a player be able to identify his glass jaw or his weak spot and learn to deal with it in actual competition.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 February 13, Ross Douthat, “Obama's Glass Jaw?”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "But if Obama does have a glass jaw, if his candidacy is a bubble waiting to be pricked, a strong Republican nominee like McCain is precisely the guy to do it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 1, Gabriela Resto-Montero, “Post-debate polls show Biden’s lead shrinking and Harris gaining”, in Vox:",
          "text": "Does the frontrunner have a glass jaw?\nAll year, Biden has led in the vast majority of national and early-state polls of Democratic voters.",
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        "A vulnerability of that sort; a weak spot."
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          "weak spot",
          "weak spot"
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        "(figurative) A vulnerability of that sort; a weak spot."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "weak spot"
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  "word": "glass jaw"
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  "etymology_text": "An allusion to glass being easily breakable.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, →ISBN, page 109:",
          "text": "\"How was I to know that big ape had a glass jaw?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[2010, Stephen Timblin, Muhammad Ali: King of the Ring, Sterling, →ISBN, page 101:",
          "text": "Early in Ali's career, experts believed he had what's called a glass jaw—that he would fall after the first big punch. He was now proving that he could take a punch, but each punch chipped away at his health.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fighting vulnerability where one is easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw (due to lack of conditioning, insufficient training, or damage from past cerebral concussions)."
      ],
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          "knocked out",
          "knocked out"
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        [
          "chin",
          "chin"
        ],
        [
          "jaw",
          "jaw"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly boxing) A fighting vulnerability where one is easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw (due to lack of conditioning, insufficient training, or damage from past cerebral concussions)."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "boxing",
        "government",
        "hobbies",
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        "martial-arts",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "sports",
        "war"
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1979, M. LeVan Rhame, Jon Chalmers Niemeyer, Tennis Magic: Playing With a Full Deck, New York: Vantage Press, page 164:",
          "text": "It is essential that a player be able to identify his glass jaw or his weak spot and learn to deal with it in actual competition.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 February 13, Ross Douthat, “Obama's Glass Jaw?”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "But if Obama does have a glass jaw, if his candidacy is a bubble waiting to be pricked, a strong Republican nominee like McCain is precisely the guy to do it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 1, Gabriela Resto-Montero, “Post-debate polls show Biden’s lead shrinking and Harris gaining”, in Vox:",
          "text": "Does the frontrunner have a glass jaw?\nAll year, Biden has led in the vast majority of national and early-state polls of Democratic voters.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A vulnerability of that sort; a weak spot."
      ],
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          "weak spot"
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        "(figurative) A vulnerability of that sort; a weak spot."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "glass chin"
    },
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      "word": "lasileuka"
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      "sense": "sensitive chin or jaw",
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      "word": "Glaskinn"
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  "word": "glass jaw"
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