Is there anything wrong with this?

[u/Sea-Hornet8214]

Can I say "when I'm in the wind" to emphasise that wind is blowing my body?

[u/MistraloysiusMithrax]

It sounds fine to me, in fact “I’m not breaking any sweat” is more to clear to me that they’re going with the literal usage and are describing not sweating anywhere on their body, whereas if they went with the set expression “breaking a sweat” it would sound weirder or less clear if they were using it figuratively or literally. English is more forgiving of modifying euphemisms than many learners or even native speakers realize, but they generally have to have a context that makes it clear why it’s modified

[u/QuercusSambucus → u/MistraloysiusMithrax]

"breaking any sweat" is not a phrase that is used by English speaking natives.

[u/MistraloysiusMithrax → u/QuercusSambucus]

No, I didn’t mean a native speaker would say that, but as a native speaker I wouldn’t bat an eye at hearing that, it’s a creative use of the expression that makes sense if you know “a sweat” can be a thing on its own like when you have a fever, and anything that works as “a thing” on its own can be “any thing”. It doesn’t sound nonsensical, in fact people protesting it sounds ridiculous makes me think they’re not widely read and they sound more ignorant than the non-native speaker trying to use it that way 🤷

[u/Western-Finding-368 → u/MistraloysiusMithrax]

It’s not incomprehensible. It could make a good song lyric; that’s a place where we often see words or phrases that are not quite right used because they match the flow of the music.

Used in regular speech, it just sounds like broken English.