- fight windmills
- yeldeğirmenlerine karşı savaşmak, don kişotluk yapmak
English-Turkish dictionary. 2013.
fight windmills
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fight windmills — To tilt at windmills (qv below) • • • Main Entry: ↑wind … Useful english dictionary
fight windmills — fight imaginary enemies … English contemporary dictionary
fight — fightable, adj. fightability, n. fightingly, adv. /fuyt/, n., v., fought, fighting. n. 1. a battle or combat. 2. any contest or struggle: a fight for recovery from an illness … Universalium
tilt at windmills — fight a hopeless battle … English contemporary dictionary
tilt at windmills — {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./ … Dictionary of American idioms
tilt at windmills — {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./ … Dictionary of American idioms
tilt at windmills — phrasal Etymology: so called fr. the episode in Don Quijote de la Mancha in which Don Quixote battles with a windmill, thinking it a giant more at don quixote : to fight imaginary enemies or illusory evils even though this rebellion may be a… … Useful english dictionary
windmill — [wind′mil΄] n. 1. a mill operated by the wind s rotation of large, oblique sails or vanes radiating from a shaft: used as a source of power for grinding grain, pumping water, generating electricity, etc. 2. anything like a windmill, as a… … English World dictionary
windmill — /ˈwɪndmɪl / (say windmil), /ˈwɪn / (say win ) noun 1. a mill or machine, as for grinding or pumping, operated by the wind, usually by the wind acting on a set of arms, vanes, sails, or slats attached to a horizontal axis so as to form a vertical… …
windmill — n. 1 a mill worked by the action of the wind on its sails. 2 esp. Brit. a toy consisting of a stick with curved vanes attached that revolve in a wind. Phrases and idioms: throw one s cap (or bonnet) over the windmill act recklessly or… … Useful english dictionary
Spain — /spayn/, n. a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 39,244,195; 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Cap.: Madrid. Spanish, España. * * * Spain Introduction Spain Background: Spain s powerful world empire of the 16th and… … Universalium
