Learn idioms during the holidays, +2 per day
（2022.1.16）
Ban Men gets an axe
The metaphor is showing off his skills in front of connoisseurs.
Ban: Luban.
Lu Ban was a famous skilled craftsman in ancient China, especially good at using an axe to cut wood, so people thought that dancing with an axe in front of his door was an act of self-control.
Halfway
The metaphor stops doing things halfway and can't stick to the end.
Scrap: Stop.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Le Yangzi went out to study. After a year, he came back because he missed home. As soon as his wife saw her husband, she cut the silk veil on the loom with a knife. Le Yangzi felt very strange, and his wife said: "The book stops before it is finished, just like cutting the weaving thread." Le Yangzi was deeply shaken and went back to study. Seven years later, I finished my studies and returned home.