出处：按学科分类—语言、文字 中国对外翻译出版公司《汉英成语词典》第290页（217字）
比喻不是本行出身，半途才开始学习，例他拉小提琴是半路出家，能达到这种水准，就不错了。
You know he switched to playing theviolin rather late in life．That he has reached this standard is really rather surprising．