sweat bullets

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sweat bullets (third-person singular simple present sweats bullets, present participle sweating bullets, simple past and past participle sweated bullets)

  1. (intransitive, slang, idiomatic) To sweat profusely; especially, to be very nervous or anxious.
    He was sweating bullets about the exam all week.

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