画虎类犬 — Chinese idiom
画虎类犬
huà hǔ lèi quǎn
Traditional: 畫虎類犬
Meaning
- to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog
- to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
Character by character
- 画huàpicture, painting, drawing; to draw
- 虎hǔtiger; brave, fierce; surname
- 类lèicategory, class, group, kind; similar to; to resem
- 犬quǎndog
Idioms sharing a character
- 指手画脚 zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
- 照猫画虎 zhào māo huà hǔ
- 琴棋书画 qín qí shū huà
- 画地为牢 huà dì wéi láo
- 画地自限 huà dì zì xiàn
- 画荻教子 huà dí jiào zǐ
- 画蛇添足 huà shé tiān zú
- 画饼充饥 huà bǐng chōng jī
- 画龙点睛 huà lóng diǎn jīng
- 三人成虎 sān rén chéng hǔ
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