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剃頭挑子一頭熱 [-头---头热]
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tì tóu tiāo zi yī tóu rè
Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
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.)