blow hot and cold
Example Sentences
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Starmer promised Monday that his country's China policy would no longer blow "hot and cold".
From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025
Americans blow hot and cold on global health.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2016
It's a bit of a frustrating mixed bag, "Superstore," on which I blow hot and cold from scene to scene.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2015
But he tended to blow hot and cold in his relations with most leaders – Gaddafi is seen here holding hands with Soviet Union ruler Leonid Brezhnev in 1981.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2012
We cannot blow hot and cold with the same breath.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel
