Inside the honest club sweatbox where Johnson has aptly chosen to start his last go-round, there's barely room to move.
At the weekends and on Mondays – when the visitors change over and Corfu airport becomes a giant intolerable sweatbox – the Paxiots take their break: gia-gias competitively displaying their grandchildren, old chaps in singlets, young men fresh from national service, strutting in their Hawaiian trunks, old men, life-support systems for bellies and Type 2 diabetes, in ill-judged Speedos.
Ashcroft, the lean, mean, mouth machine about whom Noel Gallagher wrote "Cast No Shadow", had also come fully kitted out as if for a Russian winter rather than a Parisian summer night in a sweatbox club: Gucci overcoat and Belstaff leather jacket, both buttoned up to the neck.
Whereas before this kind of activity would have - for gay men at least - necessitated a slippery trip to the anonymous caverns of Sweatbox or Chariots (or even a "cottage" for those living in the countryside), we now have the option of seeking company from the comfort of our own homes, maybe enjoying a glass of wine and some late Schubert with him, her (or them) before, after, or even during.
He feels it like sweat coming from the pores of his face and neck as he jogs, streaming down into his eyes, and from his pits and from his crotch, too, which sweats the most — it's a sweatbox down there.
Echols explains: "The sweatbox quality of many gay discos made stripping to the waist all but necessary, which in turn made working out practically obligatory".
Last June, just as New York City was turning back into a summer sweatbox, our friend Shirley called my wife and said she knew someone with a pool in New Jersey who was away for the weekend, and wouldn't mind our using it.
History and humidity — thunderstorms are in the forecast, moving up the tee times — will turn the course into a sweatbox for Sunday's final round.
Pace and his teammates had slogged through a soggy field, in a hot and humid sweatbox, for almost 70 minutes of game time.
But it's not all change for Souleyman, whose live shows have lit up everything from Syrian weddings to sweatbox indie venues in north London.
