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照猫画虎

zhào māo huà hǔ

Definitions

  • •lit. 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
  • •uninspired imitation

Child Words of 照猫画虎

猫
māo
虎
hǔ
照
zhào
画
huà