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Blow hot and cold

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion. idiomatic, intransitive

    "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."

Etymology

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.

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