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
It’s an urgent, feral performance, imagining Holmes as a bundle of mania and green juice, dancing off her nerves in private, hiding her flop sweat behind a husky voice and a Steve Jobs turtleneck.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
I literally started perspiring — flop sweat — as if I were taking a final exam in a language I only partially recognized.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2022
There have been a lot of great miniseries in the past few years that would have been movies covered in flop sweat as recently as five years ago.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2020
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