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Commonly referred to as "Flop sweat", this is when a character will break out into an excessive sweat when either nervous or scared. Another term for it is "sweating bullets". Can be associated with a character who is a NervousWreck or a ButtMonkey. May sometimes be accompanied with a LoudGulp, or as part of an OhCrap moment.

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Commonly referred to as "Flop sweat", this is when a character will break out into an excessive sweat when either nervous or scared. Another term for it is "sweating bullets". Can be associated with a character who is a NervousWreck or a ButtMonkey. May sometimes be accompanied with a LoudGulp, AwkwardCollarPull, or as part of an OhCrap moment.
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* WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} does this several times in "How to Play Baseball".

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* In several of his classic cartoons, WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} is depicted with huge drops of sweat pouring down his face whenever he gets nervous. He does this several times in "How to Play Baseball".Baseball," "Tiger Trouble," "African Diary," and in "Motor Mania."
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* ''Film/QuizLady'': Anne is so nervous ahead of her ''Can't Stop the Quiz'' audition that she's sweating buckets.
-->'''Anne''': My armpits look like Niagara Falls.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei flop sweats when she is trying to hide her journal from her nosy mother.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei gets a bad case of flop sweats sweat when she is trying to hide her journal notebook (and the rather racy drawings inside) from her nosy mother.

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