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• blow hot and cold (about something) — blow hot and ˈcold (about sth) idiom (informal) to change your opinion about sth often Main entry: ↑blowidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• 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

• blow 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… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• blow 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… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• blow hot and cold — VACILLATE, dither, shilly shally, waver, be indecisive, change one s mind, be undecided, be uncertain, be unsure; Brit. haver, hum and haw; Scottish swither. → hot * * * phrasal : to be favorable at one moment and adverse the next : react or… …   Useful english dictionary

• blow\ 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 …   Словарь американских идиом

• blow 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 …   English dictionary

• blow hot and cold — Synonyms and related words: alternate, around the bush, back and fill, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, chop and change, choplogic, dither, dodge, ebb and flow, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, flounder,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• hot — [ hat ] adjective *** ▸ 1 very high in temperature ▸ 2 food: with spices ▸ 3 involving strong emotion ▸ 4 exciting and interesting ▸ 5 very good/skillful/lucky ▸ 6 difficult/dangerous ▸ 7 involving sex ▸ 8 determined to do something ▸ 9 busy ▸ 10 …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• hot — hot1 W2S1 [hɔt US ha:t] adj comparative hotter superlative hottest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(high temperature)¦ 2¦(spicy)¦ 3¦(very popular/fashionable)¦ 4¦(good)¦ 5¦(sexy)¦ 6¦(difficult/dangerous)¦ 7 a hot issue/topic etc …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• blow — blow1 W3S2 [bləu US blou] v past tense blew [blu:] past participle blown [ US bloun] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(wind moving)¦ 2¦(wind moving something)¦ 3¦(air from your mouth)¦ 4¦(make a noise)¦ 5¦(violence)¦ 6¦(lose an opportunity)¦ 7¦(waste money)¦ …   Dictionary of contemporary English