“画虎不成反类狗”(画虎类狗)一语为人们常用于比喻模仿得不到家,反而弄得不伦不类,亦作“画虎类犬”。但是目前很多辞书、学者对于这一成语的释义不够严密,多有商榷之处。“画虎类狗”之“狗”当为“犬狗”之义,其与“羔”、“驹”等为一声之转。 “Painting the tiger is not the opposite type of dog ” (painting tiger dogs) for the common phrase people often use to imitate can not get home, but made neither fish nor fowls, but also for “painting tiger dogs.” However, at present, many dictionaries and scholars have not explained the meaning of this idiom well enough. “Painting tiger dog ” “dog ” when the “dog ” meaning, its “lamb ”, “horse ” and so on for the sound of the turn.