(colloquial) to quit one's job in disgust; to throw down the burden and abandon one's responsibilities

a portable stand used by barbers in former times

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.

a person who is tall and thin