Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

照貓畫虎

zhàomāohuàhǔ

ㄓㄠˋ ㄇㄠ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄏㄨˇ

Simplified 照猫画虎

  1. 1lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject
  2. 2uninspired imitation

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