not to follow the others and stop halfway
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù Su í y ǐ zh ǐ, which means to stop halfway without following others. It's from a journey to baochan mountain.
The source of the idiom is Wang Anshi's travel to baochan mountain in Song Dynasty: "if you have a will, you can't follow it, but if you don't have enough strength, you can't reach it."
Chinese PinYin : bu shui yi zi
not to follow the others and stop halfway
the country is defeated and the home lost. wáng guó pò jiā
have a recurrence of an old illness. jiù bìng fù fā