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run hot and cold

idiom

To alternate between two opposite extremes, such as enthusiasm and disinterest or success and failure.


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  1. 01

    a cold day in July

    The time of occurrence of an event that will never happen.

  2. 02

    baking hot

    Very hot.

  3. 03

    blow hot air

    To engage in empty or exaggerated talk that lacks substance, credibility, or truth; to bluster.

  4. 04

    blow hot and cold

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

  5. 05

    boiling hot

    Extremely hot (having a high temperature: of an object, the weather, a living creature).

  6. 06

    break into a run

    To start running.

  7. 07

    catch a cold

    To contract a cold.

  8. 08

    cold cash

    Money, regarded as an incentive that can override any doubts or ethical concerns.

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