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flop sweat

noun

  1. informal.
    a sudden heavy perspiration caused by embarrassment
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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But by tip Tuesday against Penn State, they took their places as usual, with little more than flop sweat to suggest something was amiss.

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Lee is undone by a desire that is reciprocated only in fits and starts, and watching Craig pine so vulnerably packs a pop-cultural punch: Once considered the very face of masculine cool, his visage is now soaked in flop sweat.

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But scoff I must: On an album slick with flop sweat, poor little Daisy comes across not as a beneficiary of Perry’s motherly encouragement but as a victim of her creative desperation.

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“If the host sets the tone for the evening, then this evening’s tone was ‘flop sweat,’ ” Sam Adams writes of comedian Jo Koy’s floundering performance.

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DiCaprio’s performance is initially characterized by Ernest’s eagerness to please Hale — there’s comedy and pathos in his mugging and flop sweat — but grows quieter, more interior and delicately complex as the mystery deepens.

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