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
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says UK government policy towards China cannot continue to blow "hot and cold".
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
There are some who rate series not only from season to season but episode to episode, as a sports fan might blow hot and cold on a team from play to play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Mr. Silvers could blow hot and cold on his writers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2017
A proverbial expression, very similar to that in use with us, that "a person cannot blow hot and cold at the same time."
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
