insipid
Taste like chewing wax, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w è IR ú Ji á ol à, meaning like eating wax, no taste; describe language or article boring; see "taste like chewing wax". It comes from the Sutra of Lengyan.
The origin of Idioms
"Lengyan Jing" Volume 8: "when the hengchen, taste like chewing wax." Wu Jingzi of the Qing Dynasty wrote for the first time in his unofficial history of the scholars: "however, when a man sees his fame, he gives up his life to ask him. When he gets it, he tastes like a fish."
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: tasteless
Antonym: witticism
Idiom usage
As a predicate or attributive.
Examples
Lu Xun's book of two places: "there are often extremely sharp poems in weekly magazines, which are actually meaningless. Love goes with the flow, that is to say, it tastes like chewing wax.
Chinese PinYin : wèi rú jiáo là
insipid
gain victory with unstained swords. bīng bù wū rèn
lower one 's banners and muffle one 's drums. yǎn qí xī gǔ
have all sorts of doubts and conjectures in one 's mind. mǎn fù hú yí