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剃头挑子一头热

tì tóu tiāo zi yī tóu rè phrase

Traditional: 剃頭挑子一頭熱

  1. lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom)
  2. fig. one-sided enthusiasm
  3. one party is interested, but the other, not so much
  4. (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.)
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