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What is another word for blowing hot and cold?

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Present participle for to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion

Present participle for to quibble over trivial matters

Present participle for to take or perform in turns, changing back and forth or in succession

Present participle for to act or answer in an equivocal or non-committal way

Present participle for to be reluctant to do something

Having doubts or uncertainty (about something or someone)

Unsteady and prone to unexpected changes

Lack of decision or purpose

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Verb

Present participle for to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion

shilly-shallying

chopping and changing

humming and hawing

running hot and cold

sitting on the fence

hemming and hawing

pussyfooting around

procrastinating

keeping changing your mind

getting cold feet

going from one extreme to the other

fence-straddling

holding with the hare and running with the hounds

dragging your heels

whiling away time

playing a waiting game

whiffling waffling

umming and ahing

lacking conviction

harbouring reservations about

wondering about

expressing suspicions about

having doubts about

feeling uneasy about

having reservations about

harbouring suspicions about

having suspicions about

having hesitations about

thinking something unlikely

entertaining doubts about

expressing reservations about

feeling uncertain

taking one's time

dragging your feet

taking your time

taking too long

pottering around

sitting on fence

getting no place fast

pottering about

pottering round

frittering away

playing for time

using delaying tactics

putting off doing something

hesitating over

dragging behind

bringing up the rear

dropping behind

trailing behind

taking one's own sweet time

taking a raincheck

suspending action

postponing action

deferring action

letting something slide

kicking the can down the road

puttering around

fiddling around

monkeying around

diddle-daddling

frittering time away

shlepping along

scrounging around

sitting on one's butt

warming a chair

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

Verb

Present participle for to quibble over trivial matters

Verb

Present participle for to take or perform in turns, changing back and forth or in succession

acting in sequence

shilly-shallying

working in sequence

taking it in turns

occurring in rotation

occurring in turn

acting reciprocally

taking in rotation

coming and going

following one another

giving turns to

chopping and changing

following in turn

hemming and hawing

going up and down

rising and falling

following in sequence

passing from one to another in rotation

ebbing and flowing

moving back and forth

moving to and fro

moving backward and forward

going from one extreme to the other

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Verb

Present participle for to act or answer in an equivocal or non-committal way

shilly-shallying

dodging the issue

evading the issue

fudging the issue

parrying questions

shuffling about

avoiding the issue

sidestepping the issue

skirting the issue

ducking the issue

ducking the question

hemming and hawing

humming and hawing

beating about the bush

sitting on the fence

beating around the bush

playing it close to the vest

pussyfooting around

passing the buck

straddling the fence

mincing matters

stalling for time

begging the question

telling white lie

clouding the issue

giving run around

hedging your bets

giving the run around

shuffling around

misrepresenting

giving the runaround

dancing around an issue

worming one's way out of

finding a way round

shifting ground about

beating about the bush about

beating around bush

quibbling about

avoiding answering

stretching the truth

straddling an issue

dodging the question

giving nothing away

playing your cards close to your chest

giving a false colour to

giving the slip

skipping out on

steering clear of

putting the move on

giving a wide berth to

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Verb

Present participle for to be reluctant to do something

feeling uneasy about

hanging back from

having misgivings about

having qualms about

thinking twice about

having second thoughts

Adjective

Having doubts or uncertainty (about something or someone)

shilly-shallying

betwixt and between

hedging your bets

hemming and hawing

on the horns of a dilemma

running hot and cold

sitting on the fence

humming and hawing

unable to decide

like doubting Thomas

having opposing views

having clashing views

having conflicting views

having contradictory views

shillyshallying

having misgivings

open to question

indistinguishable

yet to be decided

on the back burner

in no man's land

clear as dishwater

irresoluteoscillating

lacking definition

far from certain

hanging by a thread

unsubstantiated

subject to debate

to be won or lost

in a state of limbo

in a state of uncertainty

in the lap of the gods

a controversial subject

not yet established

a matter of opinion

up for discussion

bone of contention

between sixes and sevens

between rock and hard place

open to discussion

under advisement

under examination

under suspicion

potentially dangerous

potentially false

not quite right

open to suspicion

difficult to believe

hard to swallow

beyond the bounds of possibility

scarcely credible

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Adjective

Unsteady and prone to unexpected changes

full of ups and downs

vicissitudinous

constantly changing

rapidly changing

on-again-off-again

rapidly evolving

subject to change

likely to change

always changing

irresoluteoscillating

disorganized^US

disorganised^UK

all over the map

all over the place

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Noun

Lack of decision or purpose

shilly-shallying

faint-heartedness

half-heartedness

lack of resolution

procrastination

second thoughts

shillyshallying

humming and hawing

hemming and hawing

sitting on the fence

lack of enthusiasm

mistrustfulness

distrustfulness

lack of confidence

inconclusiveness

lack of conviction

kicking the can down the road

delaying tactics

reconsideration

dragging your feet

unassertiveness

self-consciousness

lack of self-confidence

confusion dilemma

stalling for time

lack of certainty

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