Meanings
present singular third person sweats bullets · participle present sweating bullets · participle past sweated bullets · past sweated bullets
- idiomaticintransitiveslangTo sweat profusely; especially, to be very nervous or anxious.
He was sweating bullets about the exam all week.
1 more example
Started sweating bullets when her dad asked, "How d'you really feel?" She said, "I've been feeling like something inside me wants to scream[…]"
2021, Arlo Parks, “Hurt”Synonyms: shit bricks, sweat blood, sweat like a pig
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo sweat profusely; especially, to be very nervous or anxious.
Translations
Dutch peentjes zweten
- peentjes zwetensweat profusely
Finnish hikoilla kuin sika
- hikoilla kuin sikasweat profusely
French suer à grosses gouttes
- suer à grosses gouttessweat profusely
German Blut und Wasser schwitzen
- Blut und Wasser schwitzensweat profusely
Polish pocić się jak mysz, spocić się jak mysz
- pocić się jak myszsweat profusely
- spocić się jak myszsweat profusely
Portuguese suar em bica
- suar em bicasweat profusely
Cite this entry
sweat bullets. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweat%20bullets
“sweat bullets.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweat%20bullets. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sweat bullets,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweat%20bullets.
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