Ironically, what motivated my question was a French-language textbook. In French, there is an expression "changer d'avis comme de chemise" which would translate to "changing one's mind as often as one's shirt". Is there an equivalent expression or idiom in English?
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1Looking up "changes his mind as often as he changes" and "changes his mind as often as he changes his shirt" shows that the same expression, and variants, are used reasonably commonly in English. – Edwin Ashworth Apr 13 '20 at 18:08
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For simplicity, there is indecisive, flighty, or space cadet. – Yosef Baskin Apr 13 '20 at 18:19
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@YosefBaskin A "space cadet" is a person who is out of touch with reality or whose mind is constantly elsewhere. To me, it does not connote any sense of changing one's mind, so I don't see how it applies here. – Nuclear Hoagie Apr 13 '20 at 18:29
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One-word answers (eg 'fickle', 'vacillating') here. – Edwin Ashworth Apr 13 '20 at 18:45
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I've not found any solid references (thus comment instead of answer), but I've heard this characterized as "...spin[s] like a weather-vane". – Jeff Zeitlin Apr 13 '20 at 18:54
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@EdwinAshworth I hadn't encountered this use in English before but I suppose it's entirely reasonable to assume it's an often-used expression. – Bob Apr 13 '20 at 19:27
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There are similar expressions. But many are likely to be regional or to come into and then fall out of fashion.
He changes with (or as often as) the weather.
Fickle as the sea. —William Cullen Bryant
Words related to changeable, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/changing:
capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, fluid, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, uncertain, unsettled, variable, volatile
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Thank you for this answer. Yes, I have noted connotations to weather as used to characterize mood, but I suppose they can be applied to opinion, as well. – Bob Apr 13 '20 at 19:25
