blow hot and cold

短语

摇摆不定

发音

AU

词形变化

blew hot and cold blowing hot and cold blown hot and cold blows hot and cold 三单 blows hot and cold blowing hot and cold 现在分词 blew hot and cold 过去式 blown hot and cold 过去式 blown hot and cold 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

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

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    习语 不及物

    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.

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary