flop sweat

Example Sentences

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But throughout the 2025 Emmys telecast, the nice guy comic flailed in the deep end of a flop sweat pool.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2025

But scoff I must: On an album slick with flop sweat, poor little Daisy comes across not as a beneficiary of Perry’s motherly encouragement but as a victim of her creative desperation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

So many TV series, especially on the broadcast networks, strive for a four-quadrant appeal and have only flop sweat to show for it.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2022

It’s all flop sweat, a sad, desperate attempt to make Tom and Jerry the one thing they never were: cool.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2021

You can practically smell the flop sweat as you read AMPAS’s press release.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2018