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blown hot and cold

blown hot and cold is the past participle 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 blown hot and cold

What is blown hot and cold the past participle of?
Blown hot and cold is the past participle of blow hot and cold.

Words near blown hot and cold in the dictionary

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

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