清汤寡水

清湯寡水
qīngtāngguǎshuǐ
  1. meager fare
  2. (fig.) insipid
  3. colorless

CEDICT

  1. (of a dish) watery and tasteless
  2. watery and tasteless

Wiktionary

没有菜的汤。比喻没有味道。

重編國語辭典

清澹没有油水

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 清汤 qīngtāng
  1. broth
  2. clear soup
  3. consommé
2 寡 guǎ
  1. few
  2. scant
  3. widowed
3 水 shuǐ
  1. water
  2. (after a name) ... River
  3. to swim (used mostly in 会水 huìshuǐ and 水性 shuǐxìng)
  4. (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy
  5. (bound form) additional cost; extra income
  6. classifier for washings of a garment

Related entries

嚼蜡 jiáolà insipid
寡淡 guǎdàn
  1. insipid
  2. bland
  3. indifferent
淡 dàn
  1. insipid
  2. diluted
  3. weak
  4. mild
  5. light in color
  6. tasteless
  7. indifferent
  8. (variant of 氮 dàn) nitrogen
这太淡了。

This is tasteless.

Source: Tatoeba

清淡 qīngdàn
  1. light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored)
  2. insipid
  3. slack (sales)
今天想吃清淡的食物呢。

Today I want to eat something light.

Source: Tatoeba

索然无味 suǒránwúwèi
  1. dull
  2. insipid
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