insipid

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.