created sense approved 虎头蛇尾/虎頭蛇尾 · hǔtóushéwěi · fine start and poor finish — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
虎头蛇尾 / 虎頭蛇尾
hǔtóushéwěi
fine start and poor finish
Literally "tiger's head, snake's tail"; describes something that starts with a lot of energy and momentum but ends weakly or remains unfinished.
虎 (literal) → 虎 · hǔ · tiger 头 (literal) → 头/頭 · tóu · head 蛇 (literal) → 蛇 · shé · snake 尾 (literal) → 尾 · wěi · tail
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition