tì tóu tiāo zi yī tóu rè

Translation

  • 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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