What is "sweating bullets"

vb. (present participle of sweat bullets English)

Sweating Bullets may refer to:

• "Sweating Bullets" (song), by Megadeth from their 1992 album Countdown to Extinction
• "Sweatin Bullets", a song from 1994's Everything is Everything (Brand Nubian album)
• Sweating Bullets, the alternative name of the Canadian TV series Tropical Heat (1991–1993)
• Sweating Bullets, the pre-release name of the 2004 animated film Home on the Range (2004 film)
• Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint, the title of a 2012 book by Robert Gaskins

"Sweating Bullets" is a song by the American heavy metal band Megadeth. It was released in 1993 as the third single from their fifth album, Countdown to Extinction. The song charted at #29 on the US Mainstream Rock chart and at #26 in the UK.

The term "sweat bullets" means to be very nervous or anxious about something. About the lyrics, Dave Mustaine stated "I wrote that about myself. It was pointed out to me that I'm kind of schizophrenic and that I live inside my head. Which is something I don't subscribe to, but I enjoyed the theory nonetheless.", and "I think all of us are sweating bullets all the time. Society's a joke right now, and people are getting more and more hostile. When you think about having an evil twin or schizophrenia, I think a lot of us are schizo, because we live inside our heads. There's someone we all confer with; it's called our conscience. Some people cannot control their other side; it takes them over. Everybody has that psychotic side. Everyone has a thing that will make them snap."

It is featured in the 2009 video game Guitar Hero 5.