break out in a sweat

“I’d break out in a sweat in the middle of the night thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, what if that was Ryan or Jacob in my position?’”

She was too dehydrated to break out in a sweat.

I break out in a sweat, a clear signal it’s past time to quit.

It was a cultural Defcon 1, enough to make the British break out in a sweat, or at least deploy the emergency stiff upper lip, the one reserved for the trickiest of pickles.

The screen-filling presentation comes ripe with toasty, foreboding sunsets, pale blue skies, sunlight cracking through mountains, and plenty of earthy and amber tints to make viewers break out in a sweat.