But unlike toing and froing where you're switching between different opinions or different ideas well this expression is more about actions and decisions so when you keep changing the plan.
ON APRIL 27th, after much toing and froing, the Dutch government gave Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam permission to submit his paper on bird flu to Science.
It wasn't just the time, although the endless hours spent at hospital, the time spent toing and froing in the car, the meetings – oh God, the meetings – took up so much of it.