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剃头挑子一头热
tì tóu tiāo zi yī tóu rè
Definitions
- •lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom)
- •fig. one-sided enthusiasm
- •one party is interested, but the other, not so much
- •(Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.)