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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Breaking a sweat?

Does "breaking a sweat" mean "hardworking, do not spare your sweat"?

Context:

A Sport Embraces Fashion and Flirting, but Breaking a Sweat Isn’t Required

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By EMILY S. RUEB
  

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Looks like I've basically got it:
break sweat
(British English)(North American English break a sweat)(informal) to use a lot of physical effortHe
hardly needed to break sweat to reach the final.

Thank you.

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