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What is another word for blew hot and cold?

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Past tense for to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion

Past tense for to move up and down

Past tense for to act or answer in an equivocal or non-committal way

Past tense for to be reluctant to do something

Verb

Past tense for to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion

shilly-shallied

hummed and hawed

chopped and changed

ran hot and cold

sat on the fence

pussyfooted around

hemmed and hawed

kept changing your mind

fence-straddled

went from one extreme to the other

whiffled waffled

whiled away time

played a waiting game

dragged your heels

held with the hare and ran with the hounds

expressed suspicions about

had reservations about

expressed reservations about

had doubts about

had hesitations about

entertained doubts about

had suspicions about

felt uneasy about

thought something unlikely

harboured suspicions about

harboured reservations about

lacked conviction

blown hot and cold

dragged your feet

put off doing something

took one's time

taken one's time

run hot and cold

get no place fast

pottered around

let something slide

taken your time

played for time

used delaying tactics

got no place fast

gotten cold feet

monkeyed around

sat on one's butt

brought up the rear

suspended action

kicked the can down the road

puttered around

postponed action

deferred action

frittered time away

scrounged around

taken a raincheck

took a raincheck

gone from one extreme to the other

took one's own sweet time

taken one's own sweet time

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“This is one of many issues on which teacher unions blow hot and cold.”

Verb

Past tense for to move up and down

went from one extreme to the other

shilly-shallied

hemmed and hawed

acted in sequence

chopped and changed

acted reciprocally

occurred in rotation

occurred in turn

took it in turns

followed one another

followed in turn

took in rotation

worked in sequence

went up and down

hummed and hawed

taken it in turns

blown hot and cold

taken in rotation

moved to and fro

moved back and forth

passed from one to another in rotation

followed in sequence

moved backward and forward

ebbed and flowed

gone up and down

risen and fallen

gone from one extreme to the other

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Verb

Past tense for to act or answer in an equivocal or non-committal way

shilly-shallied

dodged the issue

evaded the issue

fudged the issue

parried questions

avoided the issue

sidestepped the issue

skirted the issue

ducked the issue

ducked the question

hemmed and hawed

hummed and hawed

beat about the bush

sat on the fence

beaten around the bush

played it close to the vest

pussyfooted around

passed the buck

begged the question

straddled the fence

gave run around

clouded the issue

stalled for time

gave the run around

shuffled around

hedged your bets

beaten about the bush

blown hot and cold

given run around

danced around an issue

wormed one's way out of

given the runaround

gave the runaround

shifted ground about

found a way round

dodged the question

avoided answering

beat around bush

played your cards close to your chest

beat about the bush about

straddled an issue

given the run around

gave nothing away

given nothing away

beaten about the bush about

beaten around bush

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Verb

Past tense for to be reluctant to do something

felt uneasy about

had misgivings about

had qualms about

thought twice about

had second thoughts

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