"sweat bullets" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-sweat bullets.ogg [Australia] Forms: sweats bullets [present, singular, third-person], sweating bullets [participle, present], sweated bullets [participle, past], sweated bullets [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} sweat bullets (third-person singular simple present sweats bullets, present participle sweating bullets, simple past and past participle sweated bullets)
  1. (intransitive, slang, idiomatic) To sweat profusely; especially, to be very nervous or anxious. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive, slang Synonyms: shit bricks, sweat blood, sweat like a pig Translations (sweat profusely): peentjes zweten (Dutch), hikoilla kuin sika (Finnish), suer à grosses gouttes (French), Blut und Wasser schwitzen (German), suar em bica (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-sweat_bullets-en-verb-RMj-FR8G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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