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- to take the tonsure
- to shave the head
- tonsure (shaved head of Buddhist monk)
Trad. 剃髮令
- the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646
Trad. 剃髮留辮
- to shave the head but keep the queue
Trad. 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.)
