The word "heel" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to mean either to follow or support someone, or as a noun referring to the back part of a person's foot. Example: The politician's loyal supporters remain true to his cause, always heeling him in the voting booth.
Nearby, the men had amassed a pile of ash-grey debris, from which a single pink high heel protruded.
But its lack of leverage in Congress has long been Obama's achilles heel, and lawmakers from both parties now argue they should have a say in the alleviation of sanctions that were imposed by the legislature in the first place.
Paul walked back that statement on Monday, telling a Fox News interviewer "hyperbole can get the better of anyone", but the remark gave a glimpse into what critics insist is the senator's achilles heel: a susceptibility to the charge that he is a radical, fringe candidate cut from the same cloth as his father.
Ibrahimovic was ruled out of the tie with a heel injury but PSG made up for his absence with Javier Pastore's brilliance and Verratti's grit.
But, playing away to Besiktas in October 2000, Bridges caught his studs in somebody's heel and dislocated his ankle; aged 22, his career at the top level was over.
As Jonathan Freedland points out in his sharp analysis of how the three leaders fared, perhaps Miliband's true achilles heel in this election is not the SNP, but his failure to debunk the narrative that Labour's profligacy was the reason for the "no money left" note.
At the very least it provides a merciful full stop on a period of profound deceleration since the false summit of the summer of 2012, when he capped his best season to date with a memorable back-heel scuff-flick winner against Sweden in Kiev, the high point of England's most energetic half-hour of an otherwise moribund European Championship.
The Brazilian latched on to Adrian's exquisite back-heel and clipped a deflected shot over the helpless Gorka Iraizoz to put Depor two up.
When the Turner Contemporary opened in 2011, it kick-started interest in this down-at-heel Thanet town.
The highlight: Kimbra herself made sure that her arrival onstage didn't go unnoticed – she was wearing silver stack-heel boots and a floaty white cloak which was later opened to reveal a dress made of tongues of silver paper.
But I wonder: how long can you chip away at what a museum does before it starts to look down-at-heel?
