sweat

sweat
sweat [swet]
1. noun
sueur f
• by the sweat of his brow à la sueur de son front
• to be dripping with sweat être en nage
• to be in a sweat être en sueur ; (figurative) (inf) avoir des sueurs froides
• no sweat! (inf!) pas de problème !
2. intransitive verb
[person, animal] suer (from de)
• he was sweating profusely il suait à grosses gouttes
• he was sweating over his essay (inf) il suait sur sa dissertation
3. transitive verb
• to sweat blood (inf) ( = work hard) suer sang et eau (over sth sur qch ) ; ( = be anxious) avoir des sueurs froides
4. compounds
► sweat pants plural noun (US) pantalon m de jogging
► sweat out separable transitive verb
• you'll just have to sweat it out (inf) il faudra t'armer de patience
• they left him to sweat it out (inf) ils l'ont laissé le bec dans l'eau (inf)
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[swet] 1.
noun (perspiration) sueur f

to be in a sweat — être en sueur

to be dripping with sweat — être en nage

to break out into a sweat — se mettre à suer

to work up a (good) sweat — se prendre une bonne suée

in a cold sweat — lit dans une sueur froide

to be in a cold sweat about something — fig avoir des sueurs froides à l'idée de quelque chose

2.
sweats plural noun US survêtement m
3.
transitive verb Culinary faire suer [vegetables]
4.
intransitive verb
1) lit [person, animal] suer; [hands, feet, cheese] transpirer
2) (colloq) fig (wait anxiously)

to let ou make somebody sweat — laisser mariner (colloq) quelqu'un

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Phrasal Verbs:
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no sweat! — (colloq) pas de problème!

to be in a sweat — (colloq) être dans tous ses états

to sweat blood over something — suer sang et eau sur quelque chose


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