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
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