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

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

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

So that Dr. Carpenter seems rather to blow hot and cold with one breath. 

From Life and Habit by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)