"sweat like a pig" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-sweat like a pig.ogg [Australia] Forms: sweats like a pig [present, singular, third-person], sweating like a pig [participle, present], sweated like a pig [participle, past], sweated like a pig [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} sweat like a pig (third-person singular simple present sweats like a pig, present participle sweating like a pig, simple past and past participle sweated like a pig)
  1. (simile) To sweat profusely; to produce a lot of perspiration. Synonyms: sweat bullets Translations (sweat profusely): 全身冒汗 (quánshēn màohàn) (english: to sweat all body) (Chinese Mandarin), zweten als een otter (Dutch), hikoilla kuin sika (Finnish), suer comme un bœuf (French), suer à grosses gouttes (French), suar coma un porco (Galician), suar coma un cabalo (Galician), schwitzen wie ein Schwein (German), svette som en gris (Norwegian), pocić się jak mysz [imperfective] (Polish), spocić się jak mysz [perfective] (Polish), поте́ть как свинья́ (potétʹ kak svinʹjá) [imperfective] (Russian), вспоте́ть как свинья́ (vspotétʹ kak svinʹjá) [perfective] (Russian), sudar como un pollo (Spanish), svettas som en gris (Swedish), שוויצן ווי אַ חזיר (shvitsn vi a khazer) (Yiddish), שוויצן ווי אַ ביבער (shvitsn vi a biber) (Yiddish)

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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
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      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "sweat profusely",
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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
      "word": "svette som en gris"
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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
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      "roman": "potétʹ kak svinʹjá",
      "sense": "sweat profusely",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "поте́ть как свинья́"
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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
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      "word": "вспоте́ть как свинья́"
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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
      "word": "sudar como un pollo"
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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
      "word": "svettas som en gris"
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      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "shvitsn vi a khazer",
      "sense": "sweat profusely",
      "word": "שוויצן ווי אַ חזיר"
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      "lang": "Yiddish",
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      "sense": "sweat profusely",
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