邯郸学步

hán dān xué bù

to copy the way they walk in Handan (idiom)

slavishly copying others, one risks becoming a caricature

邯

hán

name of a district in Hebei

郸

dān

used in place names 邯鄲|邯郸[Han2 dan1] (historically, a county in Hebei, now a city) and 鄲城|郸城[Dan1 cheng2] (a county in Henan)

学

xué

to learn

步

bù

a step