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old sweat
noun
An experienced soldier.
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The smell of old sweat mingled with the smell of ancient bindings.
I may go several days wearing the same old sweat suit.
You might be better showing us how to start a small business, one old sweat tells the trainer.
At least it made more sense than tasting vodka flavored with merlot, chocolate or old sweat socks — you're right, I made that last one up.
Clive Merrison as the old sweat, Paul Prescott as a Polish survivor and Joshua Price as a rookie miner stand out in a play that marks down Urch as a name to watch.
Watching the tussle between these two are PJ, an old sweat who angrily quits when offered a derisory bonus, and Jess, who calculatedly exploits her sex appeal while taking a deeply cynical view of these boys' playground games.
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Is there any truth in the old "sweating out a cold" adage?
But Profumo was the focus of antipathy for old sweats such as Kerby and the Labour MP Lieutenant-Colonel George Wigg.
He has hired old sweats from the days of Soviet central planning to run the central bank and what passes for economic policy.
For a start, it has shrunk from 44 ministers to 18. Out went a bevy of old sweats from the previous power-sharing coalition.
Perhaps he concluded that there was insufficient time to integrate them properly, and that the old sweats would suffer less damage while guaranteeing a degree of reliability.
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