flop sweat
Example Sentences
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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 ● Sep. 20, 2024
So many TV series, especially on the broadcast networks, strive for a four-quadrant appeal and have only flop sweat to show for it.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022
One can actually smell the flop sweat as Larson gives an agonizingly self-indulgent monologue that recounts his failed efforts to get the play that he thought would make his Broadway career get off the ground.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2021
Sorry, but this desperate Hail Mary pass of a trailer smells of flop sweat.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2019
You can practically smell the flop sweat as you read AMPAS’s press release.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018
