"Fig. one-sided enthusiasm" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 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.) |  |
