without wax 是什么意思？典故何在？

without wax 是什么意思？典故何在？

The phrase comes from a practice where people would hide the cracks in cheap pottery with wax in order to pass the pottery off as being worth more than it actually was.
这个短语原指人们制作瓷器的时候会把裂缝的地方涂上蜡，让人们看不出它的缺陷以蒙骗别人的眼睛。所以without wax 引申为不加掩饰，真诚相待。比如你可以说love without wax，就是说love sincerely（真诚的爱）。