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blew hot and cold

blew hot and cold is the simple past of blow hot and cold.

Meaning of blow hot and cold

Verb

blow hot and cold (third-person singular simple present blows hot and cold, present participle blowing hot and cold, simple past blew hot and cold, past participle blown hot and cold)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) 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.

Questions about blew hot and cold

What is blew hot and cold the simple past of?
Blew hot and cold is the simple past of blow hot and cold.

Words near blew hot and cold in the dictionary

  1. blew ass
  2. blew away
  3. blew chunks
  4. blew down
  5. blew from a gun
  6. blew hot and cold
  7. blew in
  8. blew into
  9. blew it
  10. blew it out one's ass
  11. blew off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blew hot and cold (page history and authors); blow hot and cold (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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