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照葫芦画瓢

照葫蘆畫瓢

zhào hú lu huà piáo

jiu3 wu4 lou4 waak6 piu4

Very infrequent

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lit. to draw a painting inside a gourd (idiom) / lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom) / a world in a nutshell / fig. a model / fig. to copy slavishly /

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Cantofish: lit. to draw a painting inside a gourd (idiom); fig. a model; a world in a nutshell

MDBG: lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom); fig. to copy slavishly

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