sweat box
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"The whole ship was a sweat box," he said, with some passengers in cabins that had no windows resorting to sleeping on the ship's roof.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Kiss me, take my heart, break it again," he sings atop a convulsive electro pulse, as dancers pull him into a transparent "sweat box" that represents the relationship he can't escape.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
"I guess I'll put them fellers through the sweat box."
From The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon
He put poor old Alf Reesling through the "sweat box" time and again, and worthless Tom Folly had many an unhappy night, wondering why the marshal was shadowing him so persistently.
From The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon
It was the sense of the meeting that a "sweat box" should be installed under Mr. Crow's supervision, and that the marshal's salary should be increased fifty dollars a year.
From The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon
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