hot and cold

English

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Adjective

hot and cold (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Ambivalent; having conflicting emotions.

   They went hot and cold about the proposal for a whole year, before finally saying no.

Derived terms

• blow hot and cold
• run hot and cold

Further reading

• “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.