单词 | in a cold sweat |
释义 | in a cold sweatSEE SYNONYMS FOR in a cold sweat ON THESAURUS.COM Feeling nervous or terrified, as in When I looked over the cliff, I broke out in a cold sweat. This expression refers to perspiring accompanied by a feeling of cold, which can be induced by acute fear as well as by fever. [Late 1700s] Words nearby in a cold sweatin a breeze, in absentia, inaccessible, inaccuracy, inaccurate, in a cold sweat, inaction, inactivate, inactivated poliovirus vaccine, inactive, inactive repressor The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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