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blow hot and cold

• alternate inconsistently between two moods, attitudes, or courses of action.
• "he had behaved badly, stringing her along, blowing hot and cold"
Similar: vacillate, keep changing one's mind, dither, shilly-shally, oscillate, waver, be indecisive, be irresolute, be undecided, be uncertain, be unsure, hesitate, haver, hum and haw, swither, dilly-dally,
Opposite: be decisive,

go hot and cold

• experience a sudden feeling of fear or shock.


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