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in a cold sweat

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in a cold sweat
in a state of fear. He stood there in a cold sweat, waiting for something bad to happen. I was in a cold sweat while they counted the ballots.
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in a cold sweat
very frightened or worried I dreamed I'd lost our plane tickets and woke up in a cold sweat.
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Breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness.
jets and CIA-sponsored uprisings--causes many Turkish politicians and generals to break out in a cold sweat.
Sometimes you wake up in a cold sweat but you never tell anyone.
 
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