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41Blow 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 …
42blow\ hot\ and\ cold — 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 …
43blow 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 …
44blow hot and cold — alternate inconsistently between two moods, attitudes, etc. → blow …
45blow 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 …
46blow 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 …
47blow 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 …
48blow 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) …
49blow the whistle — Synonyms and related words: arrest, bear witness against, betray, blab, block, brake, bring to, bring up short, call a halt, check, checkmate, cut short, dam, deadlock, draw rein, fink, freeze, halt, have had it, inform against, inform on, lose… …
50To 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… …
