No man, no show
Bulang Buxiu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin for B ù L á NGB ù Xi ù, means not high or low, after the metaphor is not successful. It comes from Shen you's show in the study in qingri.
Analysis of Idioms
Neither up nor down nor bad
The origin of Idioms
"In the Yuan Dynasty, it was said that people ranked Lang, Guan and Xiu first. Up to now, my humble opinion is that they are neither good nor handsome, which is neither high nor low."
Idiom usage
A person has no future. example example: a body without a family, half a life. ——Zhuyezhou · Shouxiu from Ming Dynasty to Wei Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : bù láng bù xiù
No man, no show
lively and vigorous flourishes in calligraphy. luán fēi fèng wǔ
torture oneself with unpleasant thoughts. zì yí yī qī