sweat like a pig

sweat like a pig

To sweat profusely. I start to sweat like a pig within seconds of stepping on a treadmill, but you walk out of the gym after a workout like you've been just sitting at a desk.
See also: like, pig, sweat
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sweat like a pig

INFORMAL
If someone sweats like a pig, they sweat a lot. The two officers were sweating like pigs in the studio lights. To put it quite bluntly, my husband sweats like a pig.
See also: like, pig, sweat
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

sweat like a pig

sweat profusely. informal
See also: like, pig, sweat
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

sweat like a ˈpig

(informal) sweat very much: It’s 35 degrees inside the factory, and the workers are sweating like pigs.
See also: like, pig, sweat
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • sweat buckets
  • sweat (something) out of (one)
  • sweat out of
  • sweat something out
  • Don’t sweat it!
  • don't sweat it
  • sweat off
  • be in a sweat
  • ridden hard and put away wet
  • ridden hard and put up wet
References in periodicals archive
So if you don't want to sweat like a pig in the summer or freeze in the winter, keep trash, bags and other stuff away from the air intake vent.