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Original source entry:
照貓畫虎 照猫画虎 [zhao4 mao1 hua4 hu3] /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/Reference definitions and teaching material have separate provenance.
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