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Idiom

sweat bricks

Meaning

Synonym of sweat bullets (“to sweat profusely”).

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

Examples

“I always sweat bricks before I give a speech.”

“The student started to sweat bricks when the teacher called his name to answer the difficult question.”

“As the deadline approached and the project remained unfinished, the team began to sweat bricks under the pressure of the impending review.”

Examples

simple

“I always sweat bricks before I give a speech.”

contextual

“The student started to sweat bricks when the teacher called his name to answer the difficult question.”

complex

“As the deadline approached and the project remained unfinished, the team began to sweat bricks under the pressure of the impending review.”

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