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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

Americans blow hot and cold on global health.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2016

You blow hot and cold with the same mouth, Hafela," said Umsuka, "and in love or war I do not like such men.

From The Wizard by Haggard, Henry Rider




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