Hamstrung

1.Someone who got his achille's heel cut.
2.When you are about to say something very crucial in an important discussion and suddenly someone makes a totally ridiculous comment in order to produce laughter, feeling the matter is too hard to be sustained.

1.I saw an opening in Broderick the Morög's armor; but as I was about to thrust my spear into his sinews, Fegellahar the Small attacked me traitorously; I was hamstrung, almost fainting with pain.
2.I was about to explain to the engineers the crucial relationship between plastic fabrication and beezwax, but Roger boasted this ludicrious joke about vaseline; I was hamstrung.

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