throw one's cap over the windmill

动词 v.
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动词 v.
  1. To act in a bizarre, eccentric or immoral manner. dated,idiomatic
    — Awfully commercial, women nowadays. Our grandmothers threw their caps over the mills, of course, but, by Jove, their granddaughters only throw their caps over mills that can raise the wind for them.

词形变化

throws one's cap over the windmill present,singular,third-person throwing one's cap over the windmill participle,present threw one's cap over the windmill past thrown one's cap over the windmill participle,past

词源

Probably a calque of French jeter son bonnet par-dessus les moulins .
Widely reported as deriving from a passage in the novel Don Quixote in which the titular character throws his cap over a windmill that he has mistaken for a giant, as a challenge. However, no such passage exists in the book.
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