Throw-one-s-cap-over-the-windmill Definition

verb

(idiomatic) To act in a crazed manner.

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Origin of Throw-one-s-cap-over-the-windmill

  • From a passage in the novel Don Quixote where the eponymous character throws his cap over a windmill that he has mistaken for a giant, as a challenge.

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