n.
perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill

throw (one's) bonnet over the windmill Idiom, Proverb

tilt at windmills

Idiom(s): tilt at windmills

Theme: 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.

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see tilt at windmills.

throw (one's) beanie over the windmill

To act in a deranged, reckless, or anarchistic manner. Refers to the eponymous appearance of the atypical Don Quixote, who tosses his hat over a windmill (which he imagines is a giant) as a claiming to it. Sarah is consistently aggravating to blade amusing conventions, throwing her beanie over the windmill whenever possible. I apperceive you like to booty risks in business, but don't bandy your beanie over the windmill.Learn more: bonnet, over, throw, windmill

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