run hot and cold

To vacillate between two opposing or starkly different states, opinions, or behaviors. Dan: "So, how are things going between you and Mallory?" Sarah: "Hard to tell. She runs hot and cold one day to the next, so I can never tell how she really feels!" The boss has been running hot and cold about whether or not we're going through with this project. I wish she would just make a decision!

词组	run hot and cold
释义	run hot and cold run hot and cold To vacillate between two opposing or starkly different states, opinions, or behaviors. Dan: "So, how are things going between you and Mallory?" Sarah: "Hard to tell. She runs hot and cold one day to the next, so I can never tell how she really feels!" The boss has been running hot and cold about whether or not we're going through with this project. I wish she would just make a decision! See also: and, cold, hot, run Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: blow hot and cold blow hot and cold, to quot homines tot sententiae tot or otherwise be strange bedfellows be/make strange bedfellows bedfellow make strange bedfellows odd bedfellows References in periodicals archive Kunzel seems to run hot and cold, sometimes producing invigorating readings, other times not so energetic. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker, Favorite Selections
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