be of two minds(sān xīn èr yì)

be of two minds

Three minds and two minds, a Chinese idiom, pronounced s ā nx ī n è ry ì, means that the will is not firm and indecisive. It comes from Guan Hanqing's saving the wind and dust in Yuan Dynasty.

Idiom usage

Examples

But now the enemy is at hand, and there are pursuers. Don't hesitate and miss a big event. Yao xueyin's Li Zicheng, Volume 1, Chapter 4

The origin of Idioms

In Yuan Dynasty, Guan Hanqing's "save the wind and dust" the first fold: "ZHengNai is a bandit and prostitute, with two minds."

Chinese PinYin : sān xīn èr yì