blow hot and cold
Example Sentences
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Though their characters blow hot and cold, her scenes with Johnson in which their latent friendliness comes through are a pleasure to watch.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
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
Mr. Silvers could blow hot and cold on his writers.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2017
They wished, of course, to be led, as all well-informed citizens are, by their newspaper; and they would not blow hot and cold in the manner prescribed for all the coffee-room politicians in London.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
