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tilt at windmills

To tilt at windmills means to fight or pursue some imaginary adversary.

I've always found idioms to be an interesting part of language and this is one of my favorites. In Jr. High, my class read/translated Don Quixote de la Mancha, which is where this expression comes from.


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  1. Definition: tilt at windmills

Tags: idiom, Don Quixote, books

Date Added: 30 May 2024
Date Modified: 08 Jul 2025