sweat box

New York sweat box, players fizzle.

The auditorium felt like a sweat box.

And if you’re stuck in the grimy sweat box called New York City — and besieged by headlines about world leaders behaving like playground bullies — your primal instinct may well be to reach out and hit someone.

He designed his own sweat box to bend the wooden ribs onto which white oak planking was installed.

Sing Sing’s SHU has no sweat box of the kind found in The Bridge on the River Kwai or Cool Hand Luke, none of the dark cells that inmates in “solitary” were subjected to prior to the middle of the twentieth century.