throw (one's) cap over the windmill Idioma
tilt at windmills
Idiom(s): tilt at windmillsTheme: FIGHTING
to fight battles with imaginary enemies; to fight against unimportant enemies or issues. (As with the fictional character, Don Quixote, who attacked windmills.)
• Aren't you too smart to go around tilting at windmills?
• I'm not going to fight this issue. I've wasted too much of my life tilting at windmills.
tilt at windmills|tilt|windmill|windmills
v. phr., literary To do battle with an imaginary foe (after Cervantes' Don Quixote). John is a nice guy but when it comes to departmental meetings he wastes everybody's time by constantly tilting at windmills.windmill
windmillsee tilt at windmills.
throw (one's) cap over the windmill
To act in a deranged, reckless, or anarchistic manner. Refers to the eponymous appearance of the atypical Don Quixote, who tosses his hat over a windmill (which he imagines is a giant) as a claiming to it. Sarah is consistently aggravating to blade amusing conventions, throwing her cap over the windmill whenever possible. I apperceive you like to booty risks in business, but don't bandy your cap over the windmill.Learn more: cap, over, throw, windmill
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