| 词汇 | flop-sweat |
| 释义 | flop sweat noun[ C or U ] USinformaluk /ˈflɒp ˌswet/ us /ˈflɑːp ˌswet/ sweat(= clear, salty liquid that passes through your skin when you are hot or worried) caused by fear of failure, for example when someone is performing in front of an audience: The first sign of trouble was the flop sweat that broke out on the witness's brow. The performers are trying so hard you can almost smell the flop sweat through the TV screen. The room reeked of flop sweat — we all knew the humiliation ahead if we were the first to be kicked out of the competition. I woke up in a flop sweat in the early hours, thinking about what I had to do. Few films have captured so well the experience of being a stand-up comedian — the nerves, the flop sweats, the elation when audiences roar with laughter at your work. The campaign has been reeking of flop sweat recently, as the polls are not looking good. Frightening and scaring chill someone to the bone/marrowidiom cow cow someone into something/doing something creep curdle daylight ghoulish ghoulishly heart-stopping heebie-jeebies jump scare make someone's blood curdleidiom scare scare someone into doing something scare someone shitlessidiom scare/frighten the life out of someoneidiom scaremongering send shiver witless |
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