hot and cold
English
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Adjective
edithot and cold (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Ambivalent; having conflicting emotions.
- They went hot and cold about the proposal for a whole year, before finally saying no.
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edit- “hot and cold”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “go hot and cold”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “go hot and cold” (US) / “go hot and cold” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.