blow hot and cold

blow hot and cold
blow hot and cold
Fig. to be changeable or uncertain (about something). •

He keeps blowing hot and cold on the question of moving to the country.

He blows hot and cold about this. I wish he'd make up his mind.

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{v. phr.} To change your ways or likes often; be fickle or changeable. * /Tom blows hot and cold about coming out for the baseball team; he cannot decide./ * /Mary blew hot and cold about going to college; every day she changed her mind./ * /The boys will get tired of Ann's blowing hot and cold./

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  • blow hot and cold —    If you blow hot and cold on an idea, your attitude and opinion keeps changing; one minute you are for it, the next you are against.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    If you blow hot and cold about something, you constantly change your… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

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  • blow hot and cold — verb To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion. He blows hot and cold. He will speak for or against. Syn …   Wiktionary

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