flop sweat

noun

1. informal,  a sudden heavy perspiration caused by embarrassment

Example Sentences

But throughout the 2025 Emmys telecast, the nice guy comic flailed in the deep end of a flop sweat pool.

From Salon

But by tip Tuesday against Penn State, they took their places as usual, with little more than flop sweat to suggest something was amiss.

From Los Angeles Times

Lee is undone by a desire that is reciprocated only in fits and starts, and watching Craig pine so vulnerably packs a pop-cultural punch: Once considered the very face of masculine cool, his visage is now soaked in flop sweat.

From New York Times

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

“If the host sets the tone for the evening, then this evening’s tone was ‘flop sweat,’ ” Sam Adams writes of comedian Jo Koy’s floundering performance.

From Slate