刻鹄类鹜

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

quarter (hour) / moment / to carve / to engrave / to cut / oppressive / classifier for short time intervals

center or bull's eye of an archery target (old) / goal / target

swan

kind / type / class / category / similar / like / to resemble

duck