剃头挑子一头热
Traditional form:
剃頭挑子一頭熱
Pinyin (reading):
tìtóutiāoziyītóurè
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.)
Characters:
- 剃 - to shave
- 头 - head; chief, boss; first, top
- 挑 - to select, to choose; picky, choosy; a load
- 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 头 - head; chief, boss; first, top
- 热 - heat, fever, zeal
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