blow hot and cold
verbEtymology
From Aesop's fable The Satyr and the Traveller, in which a satyr declares he cannot trust a man who blows hot (to warm his hands) and cold (to cool his food) with the same breath.
Definitions
To behave inconsistently
To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion.
- For a week, she couldn't get enough of me. The next week, her interest blew hot and cold, and a week later she dumped me.
- He blows hot and cold. He will speak for or against.
- Geminis, like air, blow hot and cold. They go this way today and another way tomorrow.
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