stop halfway

stop halfway

It's a Chinese idiom, which means to stop doing something before it's done. From the book of rites, the book of rites by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

In the book of rites, the Western Han Dynasty, Dai Sheng said, "when you walk along the country road, you give up when you are in the middle of the road. When you forget your old age, you don't know how many years you are short of. When you die, you will be killed."

Idiom usage

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