flop sweat
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
Even if you’re not someone who experiences full-blown flop sweat when things go awry, those micro-shifts in sweat content of your skin can indicate different kinds of emotional arousal, including the onset of stress.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
One can actually smell the flop sweat as Larson gives an agonizingly self-indulgent monologue that recounts his failed efforts to get the play that he thought would make his Broadway career get off the ground.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2021
It’s all flop sweat, a sad, desperate attempt to make Tom and Jerry the one thing they never were: cool.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2021
You can practically smell the flop sweat as you read AMPAS’s press release.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018
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