CHINESE IDIOM 半途而废 (bàntúérfèi)

This is a great idiom for anything in life. 半途 means halfway, 而 is like the word “and/but”, and 废 means to give up. It comes with a story about a wife and her husband. Her husband went away to study, but he came back early. His wife was like, wait, what?? And he said, “Well, honey, I missed home!” So his wife cut up what she had just woven with scissors and said, “I wove this cloth, one tiny strand at a time. That’s what studying is, you have to keep going until it’s finished, or else the whole thing is useless!” So 别半途而废了！Don’t give up halfway!

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Sai Gon,
10/03/2021,
Stephen. A. H,
Picture: collected from Pinterest

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