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

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 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.)
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