刻鹄类鹜

kè hú lèi wù

Definitionen

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

Bestandteilwörter von 刻鹄类鹜

• 刻 kè: quarter (hour)
• 类 lèi: kind
• 鹄 gǔ: goal
• 鹄 hú: swan
• 鹜 wù: duck