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
He is absolutely confident that he is not a soft back. Mao Dun's creation III
Chinese PinYin : zhōng dào ér fèi
stop halfway
defeat one 's opponent by a surprise move. chū qí zhì shèng
the long dark years under the rule of the exploiting class. cháng yè nán míng