in a sweat

in a (cold) sweat

very frightened or anxious I dreamed I'd left the tickets at home and woke up in a cold sweat. Just the thought of addressing all those people is enough to bring me out in a cold sweat. (= make me feel very anxious)

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Koen	KOON	Dutch
Alexandros	-	Greek, Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek, Greek Mythology
Stern	[stə:n]
Timur	tee-MOOR (Russian)	History, Tatar, Chechen, Kazakh, Uzbek, Russian
Finees	-	Biblical Latin
Demyan	dyem-YAHN (Russian), deem-YAHN (Russian), dem-YAHN (Ukrainian)	Russian, Ukrainian