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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

Like a patient with a virus, incoming data appears to blow hot and cold at the same time.

From Reuters • Jun. 1, 2023

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 • Aug. 24, 2022

Watford, who blow hot and cold too often, remain three points off safety.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2022

That the Salandra Cabinet damaged the cause of Italy by thus endeavouring to blow hot and cold, is a fact which its warmest supporters no longer call in question.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris




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