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Idiom

break a sweat

Meaning

To put effort into something.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“This task is easy and I will not even break a sweat.”

“He finished the entire project in just one hour without breaking a sweat.”

“The seasoned athlete completed the grueling marathon with such grace that he barely seemed to break a sweat.”

Examples

simple

“This task is easy and I will not even break a sweat.”

contextual

“He finished the entire project in just one hour without breaking a sweat.”

complex

“The seasoned athlete completed the grueling marathon with such grace that he barely seemed to break a sweat.”

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