英语词汇“to blow hot and cold”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to blow hot and cold: (figurative) to be or to do one thing at one time, another at another; to be inconsistent or vacillating. (In reference to one of Æsop's Fables.)

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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > be inconstant [verb (intransitive)]

flitc1386

waivec1425

flitter1543

to play fast and loose1557

range1557

vary1557

halve1566

to blow hot and cold1577

flirt1578

laveer1598

to weathercock it1654

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. vi. sig. Lviij^v/1 One which out of one mouth, doth blowe both hoat and cold.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §113. 95 These men can blow hot and cold out of the same mouth to serve severall purposes.

1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 61 With the same breath to blow hot and cold.

1694 R. L'Estrange Fables of Aesop (1699) 219 Says the satyr, ‘If you have gotten a trick of blowing hot and cold out of the same mouth, I've e'en done with ye.’]

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. v. v. 329 Being constantly ordered ‘to blow hot and cold with the same breath’.

单词	to blow hot and cold
释义	> as lemmas to blow hot and cold b. to blow hot and cold: (figurative) to be or to do one thing at one time, another at another; to be inconsistent or vacillating. (In reference to one of Æsop's Fables.) ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > be inconstant [verb (intransitive)] flitc1386 waivec1425 flitter1543 to play fast and loose1557 range1557 vary1557 halve1566 to blow hot and cold1577 flirt1578 laveer1598 to weathercock it1654 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. vi. sig. Lviij^v/1 One which out of one mouth, doth blowe both hoat and cold. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §113. 95 These men can blow hot and cold out of the same mouth to serve severall purposes. 1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 61 With the same breath to blow hot and cold. 1694 R. L'Estrange Fables of Aesop (1699) 219 Says the satyr, ‘If you have gotten a trick of blowing hot and cold out of the same mouth, I've e'en done with ye.’] 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. v. v. 329 Being constantly ordered ‘to blow hot and cold with the same breath’. extracted from blowv.¹ < as lemmas
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