Usually means: Inconsistent or unpredictable in behavior.
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General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot and cold: Collins English Dictionary
  2. hot and cold: Wiktionary
  3. Hot and Cold (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot and cold, hot and cold: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hot and cold: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hot and cold)

▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Ambivalent; having conflicting emotions.

Similar:
tepid, semihot, hottish, lukewarm, hot-natured, lukewarmish, cold as a mackerel, Moody, temperamental, bittersweet, more...

Opposite:
cool, lukewarm, tepid, room temperature, unheated

Phrases:
blow hot and cold, goes hot and cold, going hot and cold, gone hot and cold, went hot and cold, more...

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Similar:
tepid, semihot, hottish, lukewarm, hot-natured, lukewarmish, cold as a mackerel, Moody, temperamental, bittersweet, more...

Opposite:
cool, lukewarm, tepid, room temperature, unheated

Phrases:
blow hot and cold, goes hot and cold, going hot and cold, gone hot and cold, went hot and cold, blew hot and cold, blowing hot and cold, blown hot and cold, blows hot and cold, to blow hot and cold, more...



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