blow hot and cold vs prevaricate

blow hot and cold

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

prevaricate

verb
  • To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to deviate from the truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous. 

  • To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it. 

  • To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. 

How often have the words blow hot and cold and prevaricate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )