食之無味，棄之不甘

食之无味，弃之不甘
shízhīwúwèi,qìzhībùgān
see 食之無味，棄之可惜，弃之可惜 shízhīwúwèi,qìzhīkěxī

CEDICT

Entry Composition

1 食 shí
  1. to eat
  2. food
  3. animal feed
  4. eclipse
2 之無 zhīwú
  1. (literary) easy-to-read words
  2. (literary) simplest and most common characters
  3. easy-to-read words
  4. simplest and most common characters
3 味 wèi
  1. taste
  2. smell
  3. (fig.) (noun suffix) feel
  4. quality
  5. sense
  6. (TCM) classifier for ingredients of a medicine prescription
4 棄 qì
  1. to abandon
  2. to relinquish
  3. to discard
  4. to throw away
5 之 zhī
  1. (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de)
  2. him
  3. her
  4. it
6 不甘 bùgān
  1. unreconciled to
  2. not resigned to
  3. unwilling