Derived from throw one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span>. <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> (not comparable) (idiomatic) in a bizarre or eccentric manner tilt at <span class="searchmatch">windmills</span>...
reported as deriving from a passage in <span class="searchmatch">the</span> novel Don Quixote in which <span class="searchmatch">the</span> titular character throws his <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> a <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> that he has mistaken for a giant...
threw one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> simple past of throw one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span>...
thrown one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> past participle of throw one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span>...
throwing one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> present participle and gerund of throw one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span>...
throws one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of throw one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span>...
hat <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> (not comparable) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span>....
throw one's hat <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> Alternative form of throw one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span>....
futile activity. (go on a wild-goose chase): chase a rainbow throw one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> mistake <span class="searchmatch">windmills</span> for giants attack imaginary enemies...
hand <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> fight <span class="searchmatch">windmills</span> giddy as a <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> hat <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> pink <span class="searchmatch">windmills</span> throw one's <span class="searchmatch">cap</span> <span class="searchmatch">over</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">windmill</span> throw...