heart-attack team
attrib.— «We are a heart-attack team. I wouldn’t bet my drawers on winning tonight, but we’re going to take it because we’re a fighting city» —“Anxiety hits a fever pitch” by Jack Warner Atlanta Journal and Constitution (Georgia) Oct. 27, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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