sweat like a nigger on election day

English

Verb

sweat like a nigger on election day (third-person singular simple present sweats like a nigger on election day, present participle sweating like a nigger on election day, simple past and past participle sweated like a nigger on election day)

1. (ethnic slur, offensive) Synonym of sweat like a nigger (“to sweat very profusely”)
   • 1968, Black World/Negro Digest, volume 17, number 10, page 66:

     It was hot and I was sweating like a nigger on election day.

   • 2004, Al Franken, Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them):

     “I swear, Katherine, I'm sweating like a nigger on Election Day. Can't we crank up the AC in here?”