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Difference between Sweat it out and Sweat one’s guts out

sweat it out—(sl.) endure smth. unpleasant till it ends; await smth. anxiously:

  • Mr. Khrushchev is just sweating it out for an announcement of a manned flight in orbit.

Cf.: don’t sweat it—(U.S. sl.) don’t worry about it:

  • Joe Trippi suggests the best solution: don’t sweat it. Just do what needs to be done now in order to win.

sweat one’s guts out—(sl.) work very hard indeed:

  • Here I’ve been sweating my guts out all afternoon, and hardly anything to show for it!