fight windmills

English

Verb

fight windmills (third-person singular simple present fights windmills, present participle fighting windmills, simple past and past participle fought windmills)

  1. Synonym of tilt at windmills.
    • 2025 January 19, Heba Gowayed, “The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      But even if the moral costs do not concern you, then be concerned with the financial costs; the billions we are all paying to fight windmills.
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