刻鹄类鹜 (刻鵠類鶩) kè hú lèi wù

kè hú lèi wù set phrase to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck; to fail utterly in trying to copy something
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Notes: (CC-CEDICT '刻鵠類鶩')