blow hot and cold

Meaning: To have mixed or inconsistent feelings about something.

Language: English

Literally: (Already vivid in English)

Category: Daily Life

More idioms — Daily Life

• blow off steam — To express one's anger, usually noisily and harmlessly, thereby relieving one's tension.
• blue — Sad.
• blue law — A law which regulates personal behavior such as going to certain movies, dancing, or gamb…
• blue ribbon — Renowned (sentence 1); first prize (sentence 2).
• blue-collar worker — A person who earns a living doing manual labor, or generally uses his or her body rather…
• boiling point — The point at which one loses one's temper.

More English idioms

• bomb — To fail completely.
• born yesterday — Naive.
• the bottom line — The net result (sentence 1), or the simple and irrefutable truth (sentence 2).
• bottom of the barrel — The least able member of a group; the least desirable items from a collection.
• bottoms up! — A call to drink; to empty one's glass.
• boxed in someone in — Restricted; to restrict someone.

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