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  • 21blow 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… …

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  • 22blow — I [[t]blo͟ʊ[/t]] VERB USES ♦♦ blows, blowing, blew, blown (Please look at category 15 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.) 1) VERB When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves. A chill wind blew at the top… …

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  • 23Blow My Fuse — Infobox Album | Name = Blow My Fuse Type = Album Artist = KIX Released = September 19, 1988 Recorded = Genre = Hard rock Length = Label = Atlantic Records Producer = Tom Werman, Duane Baron, John Purdell Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5… …

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  • 24cold cock — 1. noun A small heavy object used to give additional force to a punch or other blow of the hand. I had my hand on the lead cold cock and I knew it would not be enough. Give this man a beer, Sport, […]. I hit him on the temple with the cold cock.… …

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  • 25blow — I [[t]bloʊ[/t]] n. 1) a sudden, hard stroke with a hand, fist, or weapon 2) a sudden shock, calamity, reversal, etc 3) a sudden attack or drastic action • come to blows Etymology: 1425–75; late ME blaw, N form repr. later blowe II blow… …

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  • 26blow — 1. v. & n. v. (past blew; past part. blown) 1 a intr. (of the wind or air, or impersonally) move along; act as an air current (it was blowing hard). b intr. be driven by an air current (waste paper blew along the gutter). c tr. drive with an air… …

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  • 27blow — blow1 verb (past blew; past participle blown) 1》 (of wind) move creating an air current.     ↘be carried or driven by the wind. 2》 expel air through pursed lips.     ↘force air through the mouth into (an instrument) to make a sound.     ↘force… …

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  • 28cold — cold1 W1S1 [kəuld US kould] adj comparative colder superlative coldest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(objects/surfaces/liquids/rooms)¦ 2¦(weather)¦ 3 be/feel/look/get cold 4¦(food)¦ 5¦(lacking feeling)¦ 6 get/have cold feet 7 give somebody the cold shoulder …

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  • 29blow*/*/ — [bləʊ] (past tense blew [bluː] ; past participle blown [bləʊn] ) verb I 1) if wind or air blows, the air moves A strong wind was blowing across the island.[/ex] 2) [I/T] if something blows somewhere, or if it is blown somewhere, the wind moves it …

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  • 30cold — coldish, adj. coldly, adv. coldness, n. /kohld/, adj., colder, coldest, n., adv. adj. 1. having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day. 2. feeling an uncomfortable lack of warmth; chilled: The skaters… …

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