刻鹄类鹜
刻鹄类鹜
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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
verbidiom
Traditional: 刻鵠類鶩
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- (verb, idiom) 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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