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刻鹄类鹜

Traditional 刻鵠類鶩

kè hú lèi wù

to aim to carve a swan and get a…

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Meanings

kè hú lèi wù 刻鵠類鶩

  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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