"挑子" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 挑子 | tiāo zi | carrying pole and its load |  | |
Approximate Results for 挑子 | ||||
| 撂挑子 | liào tiāo zi | (coll.) to quit one's job in disgust | | |
| 剃头挑子一头热 | tì tóu tiāo zi yī tóu rè | 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.) | | |
