"照猫画虎" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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照猫画虎 zhào māo huà hǔ 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
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