flop sweat

noun

1. informal.
   a sudden heavy perspiration caused by embarrassment

Example Sentences

Lee is undone by a desire that is reciprocated only in fits and starts, and watching Craig pine so vulnerably packs a pop-cultural punch: Once considered the very face of masculine cool, his visage is now soaked in flop sweat.

From New York Times

But scoff I must: On an album slick with flop sweat, poor little Daisy comes across not as a beneficiary of Perry’s motherly encouragement but as a victim of her creative desperation.

From Los Angeles Times

“If the host sets the tone for the evening, then this evening’s tone was ‘flop sweat,’ ” Sam Adams writes of comedian Jo Koy’s floundering performance.

From Slate

DiCaprio’s performance is initially characterized by Ernest’s eagerness to please Hale — there’s comedy and pathos in his mugging and flop sweat — but grows quieter, more interior and delicately complex as the mystery deepens.

From New York Times

“That’s good for surviving different environments, because you can adapt. But when I’m forced to articulate myself, I go into a flop sweat.”

From New York Times