in a cold sweat

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I dreamed I'd left the tickets at home and woke up in a cold sweat. CIDI

The thought of it brought him out in a cold sweat as he ran desperately on. BNC

This is 1990s Britain's worst nightmare, according to scientists who have launched a unique investigation of the terrors that wake us in a cold sweat. BNC

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