You’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for September 15.

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Today’s word is sweat, spelled s-w-e-a-t.

sweat /swet/ ●●○ verb

WORK [intransitive, transitive] informal to work hard

They sweated and saved for ten years to buy a house.

sweat over

He’d sweated over the plans for six months.

sweat blood/sweat your guts out (=work very hard)

I sweated blood to get that report finished.

We’ve been sweating our guts out here!

don’t sweat it

American English spoken used to tell someone not to worry about something

Don’t sweat it, I’ll lend you the money.

don’t sweat the small stuff

American English spoken used to tell someone not to worry about unimportant things

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With your word of the day, I’m Mohammad Golpayegani.

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