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My 30-something’s flop sweat was replaced with a 50-something’s fond feelings.
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Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Scene Work • Perhaps the future will offer a haptic pulse to suggest the flop sweat coming off Colin’s unanswered text to a woman about travel tips for Greenland and Iceland.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 12 May 2025
Cannes film festival boss Thierry Frémaux has lifted the curtain on the venerable French festival and its influence, including how the success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘ left global star like Tom Cruise in a flop sweat.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
Guests such as Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a. Elvira) and Mulaney’s real-life hypnotherapist bumped up against comedians including Sarah Silverman and Jerry Seinfeld, who gushed flop sweat while having to talk about stuff that wasn’t promo or stand-up disguised as banter.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 May 2024
Nearly 50 years later, the soundtrack is still soaked in flop sweat.
—Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 22 Jan. 2024
Quaid personifies flop sweat as White, a Louisiana pharmacist who brings his brother Jeff (Rice) along on his pilot lesson — to heckle him, apparently — before the two of them, aided by his wife Terri’s (Graham) sauce, take first prize in a barbecue cook-off.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
Time to deck the halls with angst and flop sweat!
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
A lot of that confidence melted into flop sweat during the celebrity interviews.
—Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 20 June 2021
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Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Scene Work • Perhaps the future will offer a haptic pulse to suggest the flop sweat coming off Colin’s unanswered text to a woman about travel tips for Greenland and Iceland.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 12 May 2025
Cannes film festival boss Thierry Frémaux has lifted the curtain on the venerable French festival and its influence, including how the success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘ left global star like Tom Cruise in a flop sweat.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
Guests such as Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a. Elvira) and Mulaney’s real-life hypnotherapist bumped up against comedians including Sarah Silverman and Jerry Seinfeld, who gushed flop sweat while having to talk about stuff that wasn’t promo or stand-up disguised as banter.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 May 2024
Nearly 50 years later, the soundtrack is still soaked in flop sweat.
—Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 22 Jan. 2024
Quaid personifies flop sweat as White, a Louisiana pharmacist who brings his brother Jeff (Rice) along on his pilot lesson — to heckle him, apparently — before the two of them, aided by his wife Terri’s (Graham) sauce, take first prize in a barbecue cook-off.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
Time to deck the halls with angst and flop sweat!
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
A lot of that confidence melted into flop sweat during the celebrity interviews.
—Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 20 June 2021
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“Flop sweat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flop%20sweat. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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