Describes something that is neither one thing nor another; incongruous; inappropriate; ill-matched; neither fish nor fowl.
他设计的这个产品造型独特，却显得非驴非马，让人不知所云。
The product he designed has a unique shape, but it looks neither fish nor fowl, leaving people puzzled.
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During the Han Dynasty, there was a king named Jiangbin from the Western Region's Guizi kingdom. He visited the Han court multiple times during Emperor Xuan's reign.
He was particularly fond of Han culture and vigorously promoted it upon his return to his own country.
This approach was vastly different from the traditional customs of the Western Regions. People considered his somewhat ambiguous efforts as being like a mule, a crossbreed of a donkey and a horse, neither one nor the other.
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