tì​tóu​tiāo​zi​yī​tóu​rè

one-sided enthusiasm

剃头挑子一头热 剃頭挑子一頭熱 tì​tóu​tiāo​zi​yī​tóu​rè
one-sided enthusiasm
lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot; fig. one party is interested but the other is not. In the past, street barbers carried a pole with their tools at one end and a charcoal stove for heating water at the other.

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