The idea of having your identity tagged from birth brings many of us out in a cold sweat, and is the reason large swathes of the public remain vehemently opposed to the concept of biometrics.

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"I was waking up four out of seven nights in a full sweat, worrying about my P and L, " he says.

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Matthew Dixon often arrives to work in a sweat and out of breath.

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I'd find myself forgetting some weekends to check out the score on a Saturday in my sweat of anticipation for Sunday.

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Benjamin Silverman, the head of research at InsiderScore, doesn't break out in a cold sweat at every headline reporting another writedown or missed quarterly earnings forecast.

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When a Downing Street advisor points out that loneliness is probably more dangerous to our health in retirement than smoking, there are plenty who immediately assume that the advice is part of some dastardly statist plot to get pensioners out of their one-bed flats to sweat their final years away on a factory production line - see below for one example.

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That night, she checked on me from time to time to make sure I took the pills and drank enough liquids and was fully covered with a thick comforter of hers, so that I could sweat out my flu.

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The entrepreneur takes a dollar and makes two out of it, not by sleight of hand but with the an applied mind and sweat of her brow.

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