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cold sweat

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coldsweat (pluralcold sweats)

  1. Perspiration which feelschilly to the person perspiring, and which indicatesdebilitatingillness,shock, or the experiencing of anintense emotion such asdespair,anxiety, or, especially,fear.
    • 1798,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 4:
      . . .
      And the dead were at my feet.
      Thecold sweat melted from their limbs,
      Ne rot, ne reek did they;
      The look with which they look'd on me,
      Had never pass'd away.
    • 1839,Charles Dickens, chapter 22, inOliver Twist:
      He clasped his hands together, and involuntarily uttered a subdued exclamation of horror. A mist came before his eyes; thecold sweat stood upon his ashy face.
    • 1889,H. Rider Haggard, chapter 2, inCleopatra:
      [T]he great fear grew on me till thecold sweat ran from my brow and my soul was faint within me.
    • 1915,Zane Grey, chapter 12, inThe Lone Star Ranger:
      The leader of the hounds broke into cry again, a deep, full-toned, ringing bay, strange, ominous, terribly significant in its power. It caused acold sweat to ooze out all over Duane's body.
    • 2008 October 9, James Saft, “The current crisis is only the beginning”, inNew York Times, retrieved16 July 2013:
      One could argue that the banking crisis is just thecold sweat, not the flu that follows it

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perspiration which feels chilly

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