汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 剃头挑子一头热
剃头挑子一头热
(剃頭挑子一頭熱)
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.)
过去理发师的担子一头为板凳与工具箱,一头为火炉,因称"剃头挑子一头热"。用以比喻一厢情愿。
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