blow+hot+and+cold

  • 11blow hot and cold — to be enthusiastic one moment and not interested the next. It s impossible to have a healthy relationship with someone who blows hot and cold all the time …

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  • 12blow hot and cold — when it comes to her romantic interest in him, she blows hot and cold Syn: vacillate, dither, shilly shally, waver, be indecisive, change one s mind, be undecided, be uncertain, be unsure, hem and haw …

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  • 13blow hot and cold —  Waver, change one’s opinion back and forth.  ► “The official attitude toward foreigners blows hot and cold with the economy.” (Economist, Dec. 12, 1994, p. 32) …

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  • 14blow hot and cold — to change your mind a lot about whether you like someone or something The European Union keeps blowing hot and cold on the issue of membership …

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  • 15To blow hot and cold — Blow Blow, v. i. [imp. {Blew} (bl[=u]); p. p. {Blown} (bl[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blowing}.] [OE. blawen, blowen, AS. bl[=a]wan to blow, as wind; akin to OHG. pl[=a]jan, G. bl[ a]hen, to blow up, swell, L. flare to blow, Gr. ekflai nein to spout… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 16blow hot and cold — alternate inconsistently between two moods, attitudes, etc. → blow …

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  • 17blow hot and cold — Synonyms and related words: alternate, around the bush, back and fill, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, chop and change, choplogic, dither, dodge, ebb and flow, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, flounder,… …

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  • 18blow hot and cold — phrasal to be favorable at one moment and adverse the next …

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  • 19blow hot and cold — idi to favor and then reject something by turns; vacillate …

    From formal English to slang

  • 20run hot and cold — verb To alternate between two opposite extremes, such as enthusiasm and disinterest or success and failure. Henriettas feelings for Delbert run hot and coldone minute shes hopelessly in love with him, and the next she cant stand the sight of him …

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