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Sweating bullets

Posted by ESC on July 20, 2005

In Reply to: Sweating bullets posted by Armin on July 20, 2005

: In following discussion :
: So after eyeballing my hard drive, my friend the computer geek knew immediately that I had lost all my files! There was nothing left! I started sweating bullets because I knew I had to create the illustrations again from scratch
: what is the meaning of sweating bullets ? Does it means be very worried be nervous ?

Yes. Very nervous. It makes me think of a cartoon image sweating "bullets."
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