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Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen

His eyelids twitched from lack of sleep, and all day long he perspired like an Arkansas hog.

If we’re being honest, I’ve never spent any time around Arkansas hogs, but I’m pretty sure that, in the Southern heat, all hogs sweat like, well, hogs.

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26 Aug 20 · Flag

Liz

The reason porcines wallow in the mud is because they don't sweat and that's one way they can cool off. Only primates and horses sweat. Time to trade up your simile.

28 Aug 20 · Flag

Lisa Lenox

The term “sweat like a hog/pig comes from iron smelting. When iron is cast in ingots, there is a central piece-mama hog, which is surrounded by smaller ingots-the piglets. In the cooling process the h…