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
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
But he tended to blow hot and cold in his relations with most leaders – Gaddafi is seen here holding hands with Soviet Union ruler Leonid Brezhnev in 1981.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2012
Why must he "palter in a double sense," and blow hot and cold in one breath?
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry
