tilt at windmills

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To attack imaginary enemies. idiomatic,intransitive
  2. To go on a wild-goose chase; to persistently engage in a futile activity. broadly,idiomatic,intransitive

词形变化

tilts at windmills present,singular,third-person tilting at windmills participle,present tilted at windmills participle,past tilted at windmills past

词源

From a passage in the novel Don Quixote where the eponymous character tilts (i.e. jousts) at windmills that he has mistaken for giants.
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