kehuleiwu : to aim to carve... : kè hú lèi wù | Definition | Mandarin Chinese Pinyin English Dictionary | Yabla Chinese

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刻鹄类鹜 Trad. 刻鵠類鶩

kè hú lèi wù
to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) to fail utterly in trying to copy something to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result

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