sweat

sweat
sweat
A n
1 (perspiration) sueur f ; to be in a sweat être en sueur ; to be covered in sweat être couvert de sueur ; to be dripping ou pouring 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 sth fig avoir des sueurs froides à l'idée de qch ; beads ou drops of sweat gouttes fpl de sueur ; night sweats Med suées fpl nocturnes ;
2 littér (hard work) labeur m ; by the sweat of his brow à la sueur de son front ;
3 ○ (old soldier) vieux m de la vieille ○ .
B sweats npl US survêtement m.
C vtr
1 Culin faire suer [vegetables] ;
2 ○ (interrogate) cuisiner ○ [suspect].
D vi
1 lit [person, animal] suer ; [hands, feet] transpirer ; [cheese] transpirer ; the sweating horses/runners les chevaux/coureurs en sueur ;
2 ○ fig (wait anxiously) to let ou make sb sweat laisser mariner ○ qn.
Idioms
no sweat ○ ! pas de problème! ; to be/get in a sweat ○ être/se mettre dans tous ses états ; to sweat blood over sth suer sang et eau sur qch.
Phrasal verbs
■ sweat off :
▶ sweat [sth] off, sweat off [sth] perdre [qch] à force de transpirer [calories, weight].
■ sweat out : to sweat it out
1 lit, Med se faire transpirer beaucoup pour faire tomber la fièvre ;
2 ○ fig s'armer de patience.
■ sweat over ○ : sweat over [sth] en suer ○ pour faire [homework, task] ; en suer ○ pour écrire [letter, essay].

Big English-French dictionary. 2003.

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