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break out in a cold sweat

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break out in a cold sweat
Lit. or Fig. to become frightened or anxious and begin to sweat. I was so frightened, I broke out in a cold sweat. Larry broke out in a cold sweat when he cut his hand.
See also: break, cold, out, sweat


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Just thinking about it now makes me break out in a cold sweat.
All of this causes fiscal conservatives to break out in a cold sweat.
Peter Pan joins a roll-call that includes such glorious failures as last year's abominable Menopause: the Musical, and 2005's The Man in the Iron Mask, mention of which still causes theatre critics to break out in a cold sweat, and which closed 78 days early.
 
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