Tā bǎ liǎng zhǒng fēnggé hùn zài yìqǐ, jiéguǒ zuòchéng le yí ge sìbúxiàng.
He mixed two styles together and ended up with something that is neither one nor the other.
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memory
Literally 'like none of the four'. Folk tradition says this deer has a deer's antlers, a cow's hooves, a donkey's tail and a camel's neck, yet as a whole looks like none of them. Its standard name is 麋鹿.
usage
In the figurative sense it is disapproving: a design, plan or film that tries to be several things at once and ends up as none of them. It usually comes after a verb of becoming or after 是: 变成了四不像 'turned into an odd mix', 简直是一个四不像 'a real hodgepodge'.
