go hot and cold

Meaning

1. to experience a sudden feeling of fear or anxiety

   When the phone rang I just went hot and cold.

In the movies · 2

• Look at this, going from hot to cold.Escape Room2019
• It can go from hot to cold, just like that.Tower Heist2011

From the same entry

• be hot to trot
• be in into hot water
• go like hot cakes
• hot and bothered
• hot on heels
• hot on tracks
• hot under the collar
• in hot pursuit
• not so hot
• blow hot and cold
• like a cat on hot bricks
• on heels