似にても似につかない

expression, i-adjective

quite unlike; bearing no resemblance

Emphatic negative expression meaning 'not resembling at all'. Often used to stress a complete lack of similarity between two things.

• 彼かれの描えがいた肖しょう像ぞう画がは本ほん人にんに似にても似につかない。

  The portrait he painted looks nothing like the person.

• その話はなしは事じ実じつに似にても似につかない作つくり話ばなしだ。

  That story is a fabrication that bears no resemblance to the truth.