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meat sweats

idiom
Meaning

Excessive perspiration resulting from eating large quantities of meat.


Examples
SIMPLE

I ate too much steak and now I have the meat sweats.

CONTEXTUAL

After finishing the massive barbecue platter, he sat on the couch with a bad case of the meat sweats.

COMPLEX

The guests struggled to maintain their composure during the final course, clearly suffering from the meat sweats after the excessive feast.

Anchors to
Related idioms7entries
  1. 01

    chew the meat and spit out the bones

    To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.

  2. 02

    dead meat

    Someone in danger of being killed or severely punished.

  3. 03

    meat market

    A place where one goes for a casual sexual encounter, such as a bar (establishment) or nightclub.

  4. 04

    meat on one's bones

    An amount of flesh on one's body that prevents one from being very thin.

  5. 05

    meat on the bones

    A substantial addition to or augmentation of the content of something, especially something which is unfinished or incomplete.

  6. 06

    meat rack

    A place where people can meet looking for sexual partners.

  7. 07

    red meat

    Fresh, inspiring, or inflammatory topics or information.

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