Nervousness that leads to perspiring.
So scared that you start to sweat.
nervous
When a guy wants to date a young lady, but has to meet her dad for the first time to ask his permission - he might start sweaten bullets while he waits for dad to come up from the basement or start sweaten bullets when dad questions his motives with his daughter!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)