blow hot and cold

Language: en

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)Tobehaveinconsistently; tovacillateor towaver, as betweenextremesofopinionoremotion.For a week, she couldn't get enough of me. The next week, her interestblew hot and cold, and a week later she dumped me.1852July 1, “New-York University: Commencement Ceremonies-Anniversaries of the Literary Societies”, inNew York Times:Heblows hot and cold. He will speak for or against.1968October 25, “A Goat, Twins and a Virgin”, inTime:Geminis, like air,blow hot and cold. They go this way today and another way tomorrow.2002May 12, “China says DPP is only welcome if it changes platform”, inTaipei Times, retrieved9 July 2008:The Xinhua commentary said that Chen "blows hot and cold, behaves capriciously and is a hard man to trust."

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