畫虎不成反類犬

waa2 fu2 bat1 sing4 faan2 leoi6 hyun2

to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) · to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom)
  2. to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it

Written Forms

畫虎不成反類犬Traditional · Main Form
画虎不成反类犬Alternate Form

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0