Draw tiger and dog idiom stories

I tried to draw a tiger, but it turned out to be like a dog ― I was ambitious, but I accomplished nothing.

Pinyin h incarnation

Ma Yuan, the general of Fu Bo in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, was very strict in educating his sons and nephews, hoping that they would become useful talents. He doesn't like his nephews Ma Yan and Mardon gossiping behind others' backs. He wrote to warn them to learn from Du and Long. I can't learn to draw a tiger, but I can draw it like a dog.

Allusions are invalid in Ji Liang and trapped in the world. The so-called painting a tiger does not paint a dog. The Biography of Ma Yuan in the Later Han Dynasty

Interpretation category: images. You can't draw a tiger, but it looks like a dog. Metaphor can't imitate home, but it is neither fish nor fowl.

Used as predicate and attribute; It means that imitation can't reach home.

Synonym painting a tiger is not anti-dog, painting a tiger dog

Idioms show that copying other people's things is easy to be irrelevant, and it will play a joke on painting a tiger as a disaster.