Quality without wildness
Plain but not wild, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zhierbuye, meaning simple but not vulgar. The same as "quality without slang". It comes from the biography of ban Biao in the book of the later Han Dynasty.
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: quality without slang
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing
The origin of Idioms
The first biography of ban Biao in the book of the later Han Dynasty: "he is good at stating the preface and reason, debating but not being brilliant, quality but not being wild, and the quality is commensurate, so he is a talented person of good history."
Quality without wildness
severity in speech and fairness in principle -- as the utterance of an upright person - cí yán yì zhèng
with the head of a buck and the eyes of a rat - zhāng tóu shǔ mù
the nest destroyed and the eggs broken - cháo huǐ luǎn pò