a literary man of no conduct

a literary man of no conduct

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w é NR é NW ú x í ng, which means that people who like to play with words often have bad conduct. From Shaoshi Shanfang brush cluster.

The origin of Idioms

Hu Yinglin's Shaoshi Shanfang bicong in Ming Dynasty: "literati have no line, do you believe it?"

Idiom usage

It refers to the style of literati. We must brush away the ugly saying that "literati have no line" without leaving any trace. Lao She's "against literati's inaction"