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  • 21feel hot and cold — feel/go hot and cold (all over) British & Australian, informal to feel that your body is hot and cold at the same time, because you have had a shock. When I suddenly saw him again in the street after all these years, I went hot and cold all over …

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  • 22go hot and cold — feel/go hot and cold (all over) British & Australian, informal to feel that your body is hot and cold at the same time, because you have had a shock. When I suddenly saw him again in the street after all these years, I went hot and cold all over …

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  • 23blow 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 …

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  • 24blow 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 …

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  • 25run 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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  • 26go hot and cold — ► go hot and cold experience a sudden feeling of fear or shock. Main Entry: ↑hot …

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  • 27To 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… …

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  • 28blow 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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  • 29blow 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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  • 30blow 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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