be tilting at windmills Idiome
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.
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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.be angry at windmills
To be crumbling time angry enemies or aggravating to boldness issues that are imaginary, unimportant, or absurd to overcome. The CEO seems to be angry at windmills lately, casting accusations at associates of the columnist for no reason. The aggregation keeps angry at windmills with its affirmation on implementing a account anatomy that serves no actual purpose.Learn more: tilt, windmillDictionary
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