It's like a very poor imitation of a boarding school, except that the discipline is much more severe and the food twice as bad.

Has life left you so hungry that you'll swallow even the poor imitation of love?

In others they could bend over and do a poor imitation of a duck walk.

But in both cases they end up with a very poor imitation.

In fact, the handwriting looked like a poor imitation of his own.

After ten yards the track passed under a poor imitation of the older ranch gates he had seen elsewhere.

But life may be a poor imitation of art.

"This is a very poor imitation of Christ," a photographer said.

He smiled, a poor imitation of the real thing, and straightened himself.

I made a poor imitation of his acrobatics, but we soon moved on up the beach.