画虎不成 huàhǔbùchéng to fail to achieve one's aim Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 画虎不成 畫虎不成 huàhǔbùchéng to fail to achieve one's aim To set an overly ambitious goal and fail to achieve it; to make a poor imitation. This is a shortened form of the idiom 画虎不成反类狗 huàhǔbùchéngfǎnlèigǒu. Frequency Written text 0.014 per million Cross-References Abbreviation of 画虎不成反类狗 huàhǔbùchéngfǎnlèigǒu Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
画虎不成 畫虎不成 huàhǔbùchéng to fail to achieve one's aim To set an overly ambitious goal and fail to achieve it; to make a poor imitation. This is a shortened form of the idiom 画虎不成反类狗 huàhǔbùchéngfǎnlèigǒu. Frequency Written text 0.014 per million Cross-References Abbreviation of 画虎不成反类狗 huàhǔbùchéngfǎnlèigǒu Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
