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Tipping at Windmills
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What does the expression 'tipping at windmills' mean and how did it originate? Thank you!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.'Tilting at windmills' is the more usual expression and it comes from the great Spanish tale of 'Don Quixote' by Cervantes. Quixote was a knight errant in search of adventures and - never having seen a windmill before - he thought one was a gigantic enemy. Consequently he rode at it in an effort to 'tilt' it with his lance as was the custom in jousting contests of old. Nowadays, the phrase is just a reference to attacking purely imagined foes.
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