sweat like a pig

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

sweat like a pig (third-person singular simple present sweats like a pig, present participle sweating like a pig, simple past and past participle sweated like a pig)

1. (simile) To sweat profusely; to produce a lot of perspiration.

   Synonyms: sweat like a horse, sweat buckets, sweat bullets, sweat like a hooker in church

Translations

sweat profusely

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全身冒汗 (quánshēn màohàn) (to sweat all body)

• Dutch: zweten als een otter
• Finnish: hikoilla kuin sika
• French: suer comme un bœuf (fr), suer à grosses gouttes (fr)
• Galician: suar coma un porco, suar coma un cabalo
• German: schwitzen wie ein Schwein
• Norwegian: svette som en gris
• Polish: pocić się jak mysz impf, spocić się jak mysz (pl) pf (literally “sweat like a mouse”)
• Russian: поте́ть как свинья́ impf (potétʹ kak svinʹjá), вспоте́ть как свинья́ pf (vspotétʹ kak svinʹjá)
• Spanish: sudar como un pollo
• Swedish: svettas som en gris
• Yiddish: שוויצן ווי אַ חזיר (shvitsn vi a khazer), שוויצן ווי אַ ביבער (shvitsn vi a biber)