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sweat

1. tv. & in. to fret (about something) while waiting for an outcome. This whole promotion business really has me sweating.

2. n. trouble; bother. (see also no sweat.) I can handle it. It won’t cause me any sweat.

See:

• blood, sweat and tears
• blood, sweat, and tears
• break a sweat
• break out in a cold sweat
• by the sweat of brow
• by the sweat of one's brow
• Don’t sweat it!
• Don't sweat it!
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• in a cold sweat
• in a sweat
• No problem
• no sweat
• No sweat!
• slog guts out
• sweat
• sweat blood
• sweat buckets
• sweat bullets
• sweat equity
• sweat for
• sweat like a pig
• sweat of brow
• sweat off
• sweat out
• sweat out of
• sweat sock
• sweat something out
• sweat-shop
• the sweat of (one's) brow
• tiger sweat
• with the sweat of (one's) brow
• work oneself into a lather
• work up a sweat