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blowing hot and cold

blowing hot and cold is the present participle and gerund 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 blowing hot and cold

What is blowing hot and cold the present participle and gerund of?
Blowing hot and cold is the present participle and gerund of blow hot and cold.

Words near blowing hot and cold in the dictionary

  1. blowing away
  2. blowing cave
  3. blowing chunks
  4. blowing down
  5. blowing from a gun
  6. blowing hot and cold
  7. blowing house
  8. blowing houses
  9. blowing in
  10. blowing into
  11. blowing it

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