刻鹄类鹜
Word
to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)
- Traditional
- 刻鵠類鶩
kè hú lèi wù
ke4hu2lei4wu4Meaning
- to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) CC-CEDICT
- to fail utterly in trying to copy something CC-CEDICT
- to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result CC-CEDICT