[bàn tú ér fèi] 半 : half 途 : way, or path 而 : and, but, or thus 廢 : stop, give up, or destroy Def: 比喻做事有始無終，不能堅持到底。 Describing one to quit or give up halfway, and unable to persist to the end.

指鹿為馬 (to blatantly lie in the face of truth) [zhǐ lù wéi mǎ] 指 : to point to, or to refer to 鹿 : deer 為 : to be, as 馬 : horse Def: 將鹿指稱是馬，以展現自己的威權。比喻人刻意顛倒是非。 Claiming that a deer is a horse, in order to display one’s own power by coercing obedience of others or to blatantly lie...