blow hot and cold
Example Sentences
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Earlier this month, Sir Keir said UK government policy towards China could not continue to blow "hot and cold".
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025
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
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 • Aug. 24, 2022
He is remembered chiefly as the desperate shuffler and paltry traitor who tried to blow hot and cold, to fawn on Hanover with one hand and to beckon the Stuarts with the other.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin
