刻鹄类鹜

kèhúlèiwù

to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom); to fail utterly in trying to copy something

Traditional 刻鵠類鶩

Meaning

kèhúlèiwùke4 hu2 lei4 wu4
  1. to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)
  2. to fail utterly in trying to copy something
  3. to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result

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