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The exception your standards agreed to make and never admit to.
means A particular fondness or weakness for someone or something that makes you less critical or defensive than usual.
from Literal before figurative: a 'soft spot' was originally any physically vulnerable or weak point in an otherwise hard surface or structure — think of a soft spot on a fruit, or on a skull. By the 1800s English speakers extended it to emotional vulnerability — the one yielding place in an otherwise firm or guarded person, the spot where affection gets in.
- logic bypass
- Overrides judgment without ever consulting it.
- size
- Small word, disproportionate hold on your decisions.
- detection
- Usually found by others before you admit it.