sweat

blood, sweat, and tears: seeblood.

break sweat exert yourself physically. informal

☞ US English prefers break a sweat.

by the sweat of your brow by your own hard work, typically manual labour.

☞ This idiom is often used with reference to God's sentence on Adam after the Fall, condemning him to work for his food: 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread' (Genesis 3:19).

don't sweat it don't worry. US

in a cold sweat in a state of sweating induced by fear, nervousness, or illness.

no sweat without any difficulty or problem. informal

1998GQ Give me a date and I'll take it, no sweat. No problem. If I'm available.

sweat blood

1 make an extraordinarily strenuous effort to do something.

2 be extremely anxious. informal

sweat buckets sweat profusely. informal

sweat bullets be extremely anxious or nervous. North American informal

sweat it out

1 endure an unpleasant experience, typically one involving extreme physical exertion in great heat.

2 wait in a state of extreme anxiety for something to happen or be resolved. informal

sweat the small stuff worry about trivial things. US