throw one's cap over the windmill

短语

发音

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词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To act in a bizarre, eccentric or immoral manner.

    过时 习语

    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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