to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
(idiom) Describes something absurd, fanciful, or impossible that could not reasonably happen. It is synonymous with “seeing a ghost in broad daylight.”
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