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

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

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2022

Mr. Silvers could blow hot and cold on his writers.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2017

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 • Nov. 30, 2015

"Be off with you!" cried the Satyr, in alarm; "I will have no part with a man who can blow hot and cold from the same mouth."

From The Talking Beasts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith